On Aug 13, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Hagar Delest wrote:

> Now that Thunderbird has stopped its development, perhaps we will have a fix 
> someday for the bug about the multiple header. It will be easier then to spot 
> non subscribed users. For the moment, a mere Ctrl+U when there is a high 
> suspicion of non-subscribed sender will do, the volume of this list is not 
> that heavy...
> 
> If there is no consensus, then things should remain as they are. Rejected 
> emails will only increase the user frustration. This is bad publicity that we 
> won't even notice. So better be able to monitor all those new users cases, it 
> can help improve UX.
> 
> As for the rant, the forum has also seen a flood of posts about dictionary 
> and thesaurus, together with startup problem. Sounds perhaps silly and small 
> time issue for accustomed users but a real pain for new users. but well, this 
> was the first release with Apache, I guess it will help improve the QA checks 
> before a release.

AFAIK the development of 3.4.1 has been focused on (1) solving these types of 
usability issues and (2) adding more languages as VOLUNTEERS make themselves 
known to help with translations.


> 
> Bottom line is: we should take care of the new users, by listening to their 
> complaints (even through non-subscribed mails) and by avoiding the small 
> glitches that can be viewed as show stopper by new users (because those 
> problems should be basics that should not lead time loss trying to fix them).
> And since Scooter is not really a new user, it also means that users can be 
> very quickly fed up with that too...

Thanks Hagar for all your work with the forums.

Regards,
Dave


> 
> Hagar
> 
> 
> Le 13/08/2012 14:54, Mike Scott a écrit :
> 
>> On 13/08/12 13:32, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 07:08:32AM -0500, Caesar wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:19:25 -0400, Scooter C
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote Re Scooter's Rant of the month:
>>>> 
>>>>> I'm not impressed with Apache Foundation.
>>>> 
>>>> +1 on that.
>>>> 
>>>> As an example to support that impression, note the operation of this
>>>> list server; e.g. people who are not members are allowed to post
>>>> questions, but since they are not members they cannot see the answers
>>>> to their questions.
>>> 
>>> There was a thread about rejecting those mails, there was even
>>> a "Moderation Rejection Experiment"
>>> http://markmail.org/thread/ukrbtqysmejax5q6 but I don't recall in what
>>> ended all these things. May be the list moderators can tell.
>> 
>> I think that thread postdates the start of the 'apache era'.
>> 
>> I recall in the OOo days there were over-frequent discussions about
>> disallowing non-member postings. But arguments were put both ways, no
>> consensus could ever be reached, and by default the status quo persisted
>> - to allow unrestricted posting.
>> 
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