Are you saying that the newsgroup, whatever it is, is designed to send 
everything posted on it to ooo-dev ?  And it subscribes to ooo-dev so it is 
like an aggregator?

I guess if it aggregated and allowed posting, it would end up being a 
disconnected conversation if it didn't post here also.  But then there's the 
reply all problem because we are not really a newsgroup, it is a kind of mirror 
that is the newsgroup.  And it anonymizes stuff that it sends to us and breaks 
our threads.  

I find that weird.

Why don't we just offer an nntp feed of ooo-dev so that all they have to do is 
subscribe to it in their news reader, whatever and wherever it is?

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Fisher [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 19:39
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [What?] Why and How did this reach my inbox?


On Aug 22, 2011, at 7:25 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:

> And why should we accept newsgroup posts the same as posts from subscribers 
> to this list?  This list is not a newsgroup, but the gmane newsgroup creates 
> the effect of subscribers without they're being subscribed here.
> 
> Why should we be interested in that?  Especially with those mangled subject 
> lines.

The mangled subject lines are a trouble, but excluding people who are on 
nabble, gmane and other forum like aggregators would be bad for the community.

Regards,
Dave

> 
> - Dennis
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Gusaas [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 19:09
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [What?] Why and How did this reach my inbox?
> 
> On 2011-08-22 7:45 PM  Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
>> So we get two copies any time someone uses that news reader to make a reply?
> Only if the poster uses reply-all instead of only sending a reply to the 
> gmane newgroup like I 
> am doing.
> 
>> Can we block the ones that come from the news group and only accept the 
>> direct ones?
> If you blocked the news group posts from people post properly through the 
> newgroup only would 
> not make it to the list.
> 
> 
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