On 19.08.2011 14:48, Rob Weir wrote: > As my preceding forwards indicate, we're getting some interesting > posts to [email protected], including offers of help, but they are > not getting adequate responses. We're missing opportunities here to > grow the project. > > Is there anything we can do to improve this? > > 1) Continue as now, and I'll forward "interesting" posts to ooo-dev?
Doesn't work well in the long run. > 2) Send a note to [email protected] telling them that we've moved > over to ooo-dev and inviting them to join? we should reply to each mail individually at dev@ooo as not all people posting there (especially the newbies) are subscribed, but sending a general note is a good idea anyway. I will send one. > 3) Auto-responder for [email protected] telling them that we've moved > over to ooo-dev? No, as a moderator for some of the OOo lists I can tell you that most posts are spam, and replying to spam isn't a good idea. > 4) Shut down [email protected] to new posts? No, not now. Later it will happen anyway. Regards, Mathias
