On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Marcus (OOo) <[email protected]> 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). > >> 4) Shut down [email protected] to new posts? > > No >
So why wouldn't we want to shut down that list? [email protected] is getting 20 spam per day. I'm a moderator on ooo-dev and we see maybe 1 spam every 2 weeks. Real posts at [email protected] are infrequent and are not getting responded to. But ooo-dev is clearly where the thriving dev discussion is occurring. Aren't these good reasons to consolidate the dev discussion in one place? Is there any advantage to have it be fragmented across two lists, especially if one list is mainly getting spam? > > > 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 >
