PatrickG wrote:
Barbara Duprey writes:
Mike Scott wrote:
Barbara Duprey wrote:
....
One issue (at least on 'users') is that some subscribed users claim
never to have subscribed. A seeming impossibility, and presumably
they're either /very/ forgetful, or they've shared their email
address with someone.
[note -- the quote is actually from Mike]
Barbara - been quite busy with work so more lurking than involvement. Looking
back through several of the posts from "unsubbed" posters I don't see much of
commonality except that several appear to have come via Gmane.
If they are actually using Gmane, they show as subscribed; there's an
"Injected via Gmane" header that satisfies the test for whether the
poster is subscribed; the messages will not be sent to the moderator.
There can be confusion if they post from another account, which would
not show as subscribed, or directly from the account they identified to
Gmane (which may or may not be a gmail address) -- ditto. I haven't
noticed much of that, though. To further compound this, sometimes people
are subscribed both directly and through Gmane; they really should
unsubscribe from the list, or they'll get the messages both as e-mail
and when they read the newsgroup.
In replying via gmane the top of the page displays:
Compose a message to send to gmane.comp.openoffice.general
Your email address below has to be valid. An authorization email will be sent
to you after posting. You have to reply to that message to confirm that you
exist.
After you've confirmed your existence, the message will then be forwarded to
the mailing list.
No indication that you are subscribing to a mailing list. Not sure yet what the
confirmation message contains, but will soon know as I am sending this via an
unsubbed address.
PatrickG
As far as Gmane is concerned, they aren't posting to a mailing list, but
to a newsgroup. All the confirmations will be Gmane's own, this list is
not involved.
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