Jim Wagner wrote:
Cyrille Moureaux wrote:
Hi Howard,
Just as my Subject would indicate I would like to request a change in
procedure.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE (picture: little kid wanting a lollipop) can
we make folks put a subject in the message before it gets to this
list? Keeping track of what [Moderated] thread you may be interested
in is nearly impossible. And, searching for one you know was solved
even worse! I would think it would be even better to make them sign
up to the list, however, considering the overwhelming desire to help,
(so speedy, and frequent that it makes me wonder what, if anything,
some of you do for a living besides this list!), that may not be a
perfect idea. So, if we could at least have a subject line that gave
some clue about the message, that would be wonderful.
While I agree this would be desirable, the source of these [Moderated]
messages is the contact page of the OOo website, where the "How to use
the OOo suite" link is mailto:[email protected] with that subject.
I guess the expectation was that users would add something to the tag
to describe their problem, but as we all see that just doesn't happen.
The issue is that as long as we use a standard mailto link which then
opens whatever mail client the user has, there's no real way of
forcing the inclusion of a proper subject. We would need to have a
form to build the mail for them or something to that effect.
And I'm afraid that even then some would leave the subject blank, not
being sure what to put in.
JimW
Perhaps they could be inspired to enter something useful if the mailto:
link started the process for them, such as:
<a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] am an idiot that is too
lazy to fill in a useful subject (Change this line to a real subject if
you want)">
For those of you with a humor deficiency, that's a joke.
Doug
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