On Mon October 16 2006 01:30, Howard Coles Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 15 October 2006 5:46 pm, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 16/10/06, CPHennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The OP was not subscribed, hence they do not see the responses unless > > > directly CC:ed. > > > > I'll cc him my response then, and I'll be more careful in the future > > to cc OP's on this list. > > > > Dotan Cohen > > > > http://auto-car.info/ > > http://essentialinux.com/ > > Hang on a minute. IF the OP was not subscribed why was there not > a "Moderated" tag at the beginning of the subject line?
Because the "Moderated" is unfortunately not added by our email framework. Below is the standard email I send to the list periodically to help regular posters to know when someone is moderated or not : On Sun February 26 2006 18:05, CPHennessy wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to remind everyone of a few simple points which may help new users > get the most out of our answers: > > 1) For many new users they are not always the most comfortable at using the > internet nor email > > 2) Many will not even know that [email protected] is a mailing list, nor > even how a mailing list works > > 3) So we need to be patient and polite in our responses > > 4) We should also CC: the posters of messages that contain a "Delivered-to: > moderator" header since they are from users who are not subscribed and thus > they would otherwise not see our responses. > > 5) For FAQs we should redirect the users to the appropriate web pages at > > http://user-faq.openoffice.org or http://documentation.openoffice.org > > 6) For development related email we should redirect the users email > advising them to subscribe to the mailing list to > > dev@<the-appropriate-project>.openoffice.org > > 7) Ignore trolls i.e. those with the "na-na MSWord is better than OOo and > always will be!" attribute or similar as they serve no useful purpose > > 8) Adhere to the usual Netiquette > > Note 1 : So how do I know if someone is not subscribed ? > That is easy : there is a field in every email on this list called > "Delivered-to". For subscribed users it will show your email address. For > unsubscribed users, there will be two "Delievered-to" fields, the one as > described above, and a second one with the value "moderator". Any email > delivered to the moderator and then to the list, means that the email was > from an unsubscribed user and therefore you should try to CC: that user. > Many people use their email tool to filter the users@ emails so that those > with the field "Delivered-to" with a value of "moderator" get flagged to > indicate that they should be treated specially. -- 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]
