On 8/01/2014 4:55 p.m., Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Carmen Putrino <[email protected]> wrote:
I can't get myself off this list. I want out! You are fucking driving me
crazy!!!!!!!!!!
It never cease to amaze me how people subscribe to a mailing list then
proceed to feel outraged to see that their inboxes are filled with
messages from total strangers, discussing some subject that is the
topic of such mailing list.
Out of curiosity, I'd like to know:
- Is it because they don't know what joining a mailing list implies?
(ie receiving lots of emails, until you unsubscribe)
In my experience this is it. They feel they are signing to an available
help system on demand when they request it. They are not prepared for
all the additional lovey-dovey emails that you can get here, from
Think's complaints to Rob's sarcasm. Neither are they prepared to
receive emails from others with newbie issues. I've never been a fan of
Forums, they are a pull option. But Forums are an alternative that do
find a lot of favour nowadays. I've come round to the idea both should
exist after initially not liking the idea at all.
-Or is it because some supernatural power forced them join a mailing
list they know nothing about? (it certainly feels that way, by reading
some "get me off this list" replies. One has to wonder who subscribed
them in the first place...).
I believe that is why the option to send questions to the list without
subscribing existed in the first place.
Just curious...
FC
PS: Rob, perhaps renaming "mail list" to "discussion list" at this page
http://www.openoffice.org/support/index.html#community-support
can provide a better idea of what joining a mailing list implies?. And
perhaps a paragraph describing what a "discussion list" is about could
be copied from here?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_mailing_list#Discussion_list
Just an idea...
There is a separate discuss list in most OS communities.
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Michael Adams
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