Ekhart GEORGI (last name last) wrote:
I apologise for the slightly OT nature of this query, but I wonder
why this list allows non-subscribers to post -- it generates the need
for a moderator, and I also wonder how those people who do not
subscribe receive the potentially numerous replies to their queries.
All other (not-OOo) lists I am subscribed to are subscriber-only and
they don't have this problem.
Apparently there is a major problem in the way OO handles feedback and
questions, especially that coming from newbies:
http://www.openoffice.org/contact.html
"If you post mail without subscribing, you will not be able to view
responses unless you check the archives of the list. The Mail List
page lists archives to the most popular lists."
This is ridiculous and needs to be changed immediately. Apparently all
help sent to the specifically most helpless newbies on this list never
reaches them and wastes many helpers' time.
You say "All help ... never reaches them"
I hardly think so. Most helpers on this list cc the OP with their own or
others' comments and don't see it as a ridiculous thing to do.
I've only been here a couple of days, but i can think of already at
least 10 emails of mine and others that i'll have to forward to the
original posters' addresses.
Sometimes the help received encourages the non-subscribed to subscribe.
It did for me!
WSP
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