Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I have just seen another reason why I should migrate to Thunderbird from Mozilla mail :), but....
I wonder what the purpose is of telling the list subscribers that an 'unwashed' person is not subscribed. Personally I couldn't give a hoot if they are or not.
It is not meant to be a calling out. I do it, because that is what others do. It makes sense though. It explains why the user has an unexpected e-mail from someone they haven't heard of in their inbox.
If they have the opportunity to post to the list from the web whilst not being a subscriber, perhaps rather send their message through as the list does now, but automate the sending of the normal 'As you are not subscribed you may not have seen..'.
Not all replies to a topic need to go back to the poster, and some come through with just the moderated subject, it would not work out particularly well.
Also, there is an automated e-mail that goes out the user to tell them they are not subscribed when they post their message.
Or if that cannot be done then if the moderators feel the need to tell someone that they need to subscribe ala 'As you are not subscribed you may not have seen..', then rather just send the message to the original poster. The people on the list already have seen the posters message and do not need the additional traffic, especially those on dial-up. Why do they need to know that someone isn't subscribed? Sure its handy if they see the moderators note before replying to the message but otherwise?
This is done, I would imagine, so that when the user replies, it goes back to the list instead of to the person that tried to help.
The notification about someone not being subscribed is by no means anything to do with OOo. Personally I think the OOo web page should be changed to allow people to submit via the web BUT warn them that they will not receive any replies unless they are subscribed to the list ie subscribe to the list and then ask the question.
-- Peter Kupfer OOo user since 'OO4 http://peschtra.tripod.com/open_office/ooo_front.htm
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