Harold Fuchs wrote:
On Saturday, November 04, 2006 3:00 AM [GMT+1=CET], [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:
The current OOo forum requires that you subscribe (and therefore get hundreds of messages a day). A new user, or someone with a simple query about OOo does *not* want to be invaded by hundreds of irrelevant messages.
You are proposing that people can obtain help without participation. You
can do exactly this on the forum. Post your message, and place a check
next to "notify me when an answer is posted" and then ignore the forum
until someone bothers to answer your question.
If a person does not receive mail from the mailing lists unless it is
related to a thread that they started:
1. You would miss messages from people whose email software does not
properly preserve the message as part of a thread.
2. You will receive messages from people that start a new thread by
appending to an old thread.
3. Some members might choose to not receive messages from people that
are not full subscribers so you would likely deal with a much smaller
subset of people.
In other words, then a mailing list is not the correct choice for you,
but rather, a forum or news group.
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Andrew Pitonyak
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