On Saturday 04 June 2005 00:28, Rick wrote: > Why do many posts have a subject of moderated rather than the real, > meaningful subject text?
Many people poting theior first questions posting to this mailing list are not the usual type that use email to communicate with others about computer problems. They do not know much about mailing lists, e.g. that their mails are public or that they need to be subscribed to see all responses send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have tried many ways to encourage them to subscribe to the mailing list but many do not understand what we mean or they are not interested in doing so. However we still want them to use OOo and get their questions answered so many of us CC: these people as well as reply to the mailing list. You will see that many people respond with a "thank you" for our small extra effort. Mails from people not subscribe to the mailing list are filtered thru humans so that only mails relevant to OOo are posted to this mailing list. This function is called moderating the list. Unfortunately not all mails which have been moderated havde the tag "[moderated]" (as this is only generated from a HTML link on http://support.openoffice.org). But a sure way of knowing which mails have been moderated is to look at the headers of the mail you receive where you will see "Delivered-to:" and if it contains "moderator" then you know that this person is not subscribed to the mailing list and you should CC: your answer to them. Note that most reasonable mail tools can filter email into different folders based on fields/values in headers. If you have any suggestions of how to improve this situation, I would encourage you first to read the mail archive for this list as it is a topic that comes up every few months. I hope that this helps. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
