[dev] Mails from moderated users

[CPHennessy]

Hi all,
 Yes, this 'pain-in-the-ass' problem.

Currently for most people there is no visible indication in emails that they 
are from people who are not subscribed to this mailing list, so most people 
responding to those emails generally only reply to this mailing list. This of 
course means that unsubscribed users do not see the replies - unless they 
have figured out that there is a web interface or gmane.org.

Of course some could reply that if these moderated users are so stupid that 
they do not subscribe to this mailing list they should be ignored. 

However we all started off in a position of ignorance. 

The interesting thing about many of these moderated emails that never got a 
direct response, is that they are potential developers, who would at least 
like to make some contributors to OpenOffice.org. 


What I would like to suggest is :
1) people should be aware on ALL MAILING LISTS that there are moderated 
emails, and at least have a policy on whether those emails should be answered 
or not, and/or whether 

2) everyone should know how to flag the fact that an email is moderated (this 
is quite easy to do as there is an email header Delivered-to: which if it 
contains moderator, is obviously a moderated email. Most modern email tools 
can be setup to do some filtering and add an indication to show that an email 
has been moderated. 

3) that ultimately the moderator should make sure that all emails get 
responded to with the OP being CC:ed.

The list of moderated emails since Feburary (which I noticed) that never got a 
reply is:
[dev] Working on PyUno
[dev] Regarding Contributing
[dev] Help required to start work
[dev] formulas OO
[dev] Preventing from document closing
[dev] Error on dmake: Could not detect compiler version
[dev] Configure issues
[dev] openoffice plugin development.
[dev] help with OOo Writer
[dev] How can I contribute for OpenOffice?
[dev] Ooo 2.1
[dev] Configure Script Error [Please Help]
[dev] Developer Help
[dev] Getting started
[dev] latest compiling win32 milestone
[dev] function to convert rtf to pdf
[dev] Brukerveiledning til Writer og Calc
[dev] contributor
[dev] what shall I do if i want to know how OpenOffice handles MS office file 
format?
[dev] programming help
[dev] I'm a programmer who wants to contribute to the project
[dev] May I help?
[dev] FW:building problems on XP, need your help 


As you can see from the above list there are many potential contributors who 
are being ignored !!


-- 
CPH : openoffice.org contributor

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RE: [dev] Mails from moderated users

[Allen Pulsifer]

 Hi all,
  Yes, this 'pain-in-the-ass' problem.

I would prefer that all emails from unsubscribed addresses simply be
rejected with an auto-reply sent to the user telling them they need to
subscribe and then resend.

Alternately, these emails could be treated as a subscription request and
automatically held until the user subscribes.  The auto-reply could inform
the user that they must be subscribed, give them the option of subscribing
by replying to the auto-reply (or clicking a link), and then automatically
forward their original email to the list as soon as they subscribe.  If they
did not subscribe in 72 hours, their email would be deleted.

Allen

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[dev] Can't install latest 2.3 Dev Snapshot (SRC680_m212)

[Joe Smith]

$ ls -l OOo-Dev_SRC680_m212_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jes jes 130406906 May 19 21:11 
OOo-Dev_SRC680_m212_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz

$ md5sum OOo-Dev_SRC680_m212_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
72485f2c51a654e850719b3aaedefe47 
OOo-Dev_SRC680_m212_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz

--- from http://download.openoffice.org/SRC680/md5sums.html:
eb472a0ba3bc03105f85c2ee505f211d 
OOo-Dev_SRC680_m212_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz

$ tar xzf OOo-Dev_SRC680_m212_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Same result with files from two different mirrors.

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[dev] Re: Can't install latest 2.3 Dev Snapshot (SRC680_m212)

[Joe Smith]

Joe Smith wrote:

... Same result with files from two different mirrors.


Sorry, it does actually install and run.

# rpm -ivh --prefix /home/openoffice.orgSRC680_m212 *.rpm
Preparing... ### [100%]
   1:ooo-dev-core08  ### [  4%]
   2:ooo-dev-core07  ### [  7%]
   3:ooo-dev-core06  ### [ 11%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file 
/home/openoffice.orgSRC680_m212/share/template/wizard/letter/da/pri-mail_l.ott;464fa2b3: 
cpio: MD5 sum mismatch

   4:ooo-dev-core01  ...

(finished with no further errors)

Seems to run ok.

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