Thanks everyone for your help, and for being understanding of why I asked this, and for explaining that all non-subscribed users get moderated automatically. I just assumed that it was like Google Groups, which does have this functionality, and which saves duplicate emails being needlessly sent.
By the way - most people will see the users@ address as a support email, rather than a mailing list. Most people would ask the question "Why should I subscribe?", because they don't want un-needed e-mail, as they are only interested in their question, rather than others' questions, which, in case you were, wondering, is why I asked this question. Once again, thanks for all the help, Kieran On 22 May 2013 15:14, "V Stuart Foote" <[email protected]> wrote: > >From: Wolfgang Keller [[email protected]] > >Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 8:42 AM > >> Just a quick question - when on this list (users), shouldn't we keep > >> the sender's email in the To / Cc list when we reply-all > > > >No. > > > >> in case they haven't subscribed to the list (which makes sense if > >> they're just looking for support and not for helping others out). > > > >A mailinglist allowing messages from non-subscribers is imho > >mis-configured. > > That is correct! Anything else would be a recipe for spam--non-subscribed > users are be "moderated" through if the message merits--often with a > personal note back from the moderator on how to subscribe. > > >> The reason I am asking this is because sometimes I see people > >> replying to just the users list, > > > >That's the correct way to do it. No dis-courtesy copies. Never. > > +1 > By replying directly to user, you are implying that you are taking > response "off list"--please do so if that is your intent, i.e. to criticize > or "guide" so as not to embarrass other subscribers don't need or want to > see that. Otherwise the netiquette is to address discussion for the list to > read--and keep response civil. > > So, use the "respond to all" option of your email reader of choice, it > SHOULD pick up the mail list address. Delete the "other" direct addresses. > And finally TRIM away any of the extra crud in the message. Leave just > enough for the message to stand on its own, but not be distracting either > to read--or when viewed in context in a News group reader or a web archive > like Nabble. > > Stuart > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > 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 > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] 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
