Though I hate to recommend a competitor's services, and may take a little flack for doing so. For those who do have a individual question and want an answer and nothing more, perhaps they should consider asking their question at http://user.services.openoffice.org/ . The community forum does support OpenOffice, LibreOffice, StarOffice, NeoOffice and more.
I personally have done so on occasion and have received satisfactory results. On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker < jean-francois.nifenec...@laposte.net> wrote: > Hi, > > Le 20/01/2012 13:28, Florian Effenberger a écrit : > >> Hello, >> >> in the last few days, we have been receiving numerous requests for >> unsubscription from this mailing list. >> [...] >> >> Way over 95% of all unsubscription problems are not related to any >> malfunction of our mail system or of spam filters triggering in error. >> We can confirm - we've researched each and every case - that nearly all >> unsubscription problems simply occur because people do not *READ* the >> instructions we give. >> >> Thank you very much for your cooperation, and sorry for any >> inconveniences, >> Florian >> >> > To me it appears that many people subscribing to mailing lists and having > problems are those who don't really know what a mailing list is all about. > Most have one single question to ask, they are probably newbees (at least > to mailing lists). Then they are overflooded by a seemingly unstoppable > flow of messages, most of which have nothing to see with their own question. > > The consequences are: > -- they are angry at a stupid communication system > -- they can suppose that the software itself belongs to the same sort of > cr.. > -- they are lost and don't even see the unsubscription option > -- the shout at the list because of FUD > > All of this is bad marketing for LibO (or any large audience tool using > mailing lists). This may turn people away from the software and, worse, > make them denigrate it. > > I'm a long-time user of mailing lists and I wouldn't swap to anything else > for reasons already given by others here. Nevertheless, I'm now convinced > that most of newbees or one-shot questionners should be directed to forums > first and that the way mailing lists work should be widely emphasized. The > last problem being to make forums and mailing lists transparently > communicate. > > -- > Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.** > org <users%2bh...@global.libreoffice.org> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/users/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
