On 15/12/2011 21:56, Larry Gusaas wrote:
On 2011-12-15 2:27 PM Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
I double-checked what there is available to indicate that a post is
from a
non-subscriber: Nothing.
The moderation acceptance of an unsubscriber-post is not accompanied by
anything that qualifies the post as seen on the list.
On this and other OpenOffice.org mailing lists, posts from someone who
is not subscribed to the list have the following Headers added:
X-Validation-by: [email protected]
X-Validation-by: [email protected]
On this list, perhaps - but I think I recall Dennis H saying, two posts
up-thread, that the Apache lists had no similar flag.
In my opinion, mailing lists should not allowed postings without
subscribing. It is time consuming and a pain in the ass for people
providing support.
I used to feel the same way. But if you want happy customers, you have
to deal with the very newbies who wouldn't know a mailing list from an
Arctic gale. Some people simply haven't the slightest clue about mail
lists (or forums for that matter). Yet I agree it's a right royal pain
having to answer the same questions over and over, and then yet again.
Which brings me back to my [possibly Bayes-based] autoresponder idea
that's just been so thoroughly knocked on the head.
--
Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England
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