arnold huzen wrote:
So I agree with your proposal, but it shouldn't have to be a choice to
follow the response on the thread you started.
Harold Fuchs schreef:
Also, as a registered user of this e-mail list I get scores if not
hundreds of e-mails per day. If I wanted to ask a simple question
and, as a result, got several hundred messages before seeing a reply
I'd not be a happy bunny. Especially if I was a busy person anyway
having to deal with lots of e-mails as part of my "real" life.
Perhaps we should alter the format of the list. I'm not sure what
they are called but there are many web based forums where you can set
a "watch this thread" flag so that you only get notified when someone
responds to a message within a thread you started. I've seen some of
these forums where registration is a requirement and some where it
isn't. We could then have a class of user (the volunteers) who get
everything and another class (the "customers") who only get stuff
s/he has flagged as interesting.
Would this be a good idea?
I don't think there is an equivalent to this (web forum flag idea) for
people subscribed to the mailing list. However, those people can use
their email filters to achieve the same thing if they wish, or just
divert all OOo list mail to a separate folder if it's cluttering up
their "real" life. Or they can receive OOo list mail in digest format -
one large message per day.
Either way, one effect of this would be an increase in repeat questions,
since "customers" aren't as likely to see that someone else has asked
the same question (and been answered already), often just recently.
Also, those people aren't going to learn new things from other people's
questions.
So I'm not sure it's a good idea.
Ross
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