[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please make people subscribe to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing > list before they can post. Please do not let e-mail from an > unsubscribed address go to the list. Please send a reply to the > unsubscribed address telling that person they must subscribe before > their e-mail is posted. This will make it very clear to any person, > who is other wise not aware, that they are trying to send e-mail to > a mailing list and not one person at a business, which is what so > many people using Windows and MAC think they are doing. > > You could also direct them to the gmane list that tracks the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. Then they could find their answers that > way. > > Doing this will cut out a lot of useless chatter about this stuff on > the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list and will get rid of the people who > will ask one question, that has already been asked before, and > never ask another again.
This would actually be a bad idea as it created a huge barrier for new users of OpenOffice.org and doesn't let OOo look user friendly. Mailing lists are a strange thing for many users anyway and they perhaps would prefer web forums. I hate web forums and so I hope we can keep the mailing lists as they are. BTW: the "chatter" you mentioned would be replaced by complaints of people about the huge amount of mails they get and never wanted. That's not better. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
