Am 08/19/2011 06:34 PM, schrieb Rob Weir:
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?
Why are you asking when you want to do it anyway? ;-)
[email protected] is getting 20 spam per day. I'm a moderator on
ooo-dev and we see maybe 1 spam every 2 weeks.
I said I see up to 20 spam mails on the other both ML. I don't know how
much we get on dev@ooo.
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?
If so, it would be the same reason to shutdown also other mailing lists.
So, we could do it will all.
As Mathias said, the shutdown will happen anyway. No need to force it.
Marcus
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
