Hi Friedrich, On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 23:45 +0100, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: > After getting reports about serious issues hindering efficient mail > communication through the recent practiced "reply-to mangling" on our > mailing lists, we from tech team are going for a test setup, switching > it off for one - most likely this one.
Cool ! :-) having said that, I'd prefer it to be tried on a less high-volume list, where we could see the utility of attracting more participants (personally). To me a huge benefit of not reply-to mangling is to allow new people to interact with the list (and get replies to their mail) without being subscribed; that provides an easy on-ramp into the project, and hopefully helps increase contribution: giving our community fuzzy edges. Of course, I would expect it to be opposed by people who are already members of a given community, and like not getting personal replies to messages in threads they start. > I thought about to advance Italo's great compilation of posting style > guidelines http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette towards a > "7 golden rules making it a pleasure to read your mail" style guideline > flanked by an "adopter's" page where people can out themselves as > adopters and supporters of that guidelines. Sounds rather lovely; making mails shorter, sweeter and easier to read by others (by snipping context, not top-posting etc.) is just basic politeness IMHO. Great to see Italo wrote that up. HTH, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted