Am 08/19/2011 05:33 PM, schrieb TJ Frazier:
Hi, Marcus
On 8/19/2011 09:12, Marcus (OOo) wrote:
Am 08/19/2011 02:48 PM, schrieb Rob Weir:
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?
2) Send a note to [email protected] telling them that we've moved
over to ooo-dev and inviting them to join?
It's OK for everyone who is still subscribed to that ML. But not
everyone who wants to participate is already subscribed.
3) Auto-responder for [email protected] telling them that we've moved
over to ooo-dev?
Not a good solution in the case of spam. They would get an answer, know
that it's a valid address and start mass spamming.
E.g., I'm still managing the [email protected] and
[email protected] ML and 99% is spam (up to 20 per day).
Are you doing any spam-reporting? I do that for almost every piece I
receive, here at home, and get maybe one/month.
C. and I had a running dispute as to how useful it would be, to chase
down spammers on the wiki (instead of just blocking them). I didn't have
access to the email addresses, so he won; we didn't.
If I can be of any help, please feel free to email me directly. I've
never done any ML moderating or managing, but (famous last words) how
hard can it be? --/tj/
They're moderated ML, so I don't do anything with the mails. When you
reject anything then they got a reply and know it's a valid address.
I use the spam feature of Thunderbird to train the internal spam filter.
Today nearly all got into my spam folder. Here I just need to look for
false positives, otherwise delete finally. That's it.
After a while the mails get also deleted automatically in the ML system
without any reply back to the sender.
Marcus
4) Shut down [email protected] to new posts?
No
It seems that #1 is the best way for the moment as long as the old ML
are still working. But maybe together with a note. Then the possible new
participant 1) gets an (first) answer, #2 knows that it goes on at ASF,
and #3 knows the new ML.
My 2 ct.
Marcus
