James, I believe it's bad netiquette to shout in emails. Tut, tut and tch.
I wonder how many read the README. I've referred several people to it and can't think why I ever even noticed it. If you think it would make a difference, I would substitute the existing addresses in the README with subscription addresses. In the confirmation email, I would include some netiquette rules such as no return receipts and no inappropriate capitals. And of what use is moderating if it cannot weed out return receipt requests? The real cot case is the website tangle and the lack of elementary information, notices and links. Someone was asking on the forum recently about trademarks. A Google search by yours truly unearthed a few references but he made the valid point that the information should be prominent. If people think this is a help desk, that is entirely the fault of people within the organisation and not the fault of the hapless subscribers to this list who get the same shabby treatment from insiders as users generally receive. You and all the other hard working volunteers might get more help if you stopped behaving like horses' rear ends. Arrogance and offhand responses are no substitute for competence. Cheers. James Mckenzie wrote: > > John: > > I have asked several times for your assistance to rewrite the README that > comes > with OpenOffice.org package. Are you willing to help or whine? If it is > the latter, > please SHUT UP. > REMEMBER, FOLKS THINK THIS IS A HELP DESK NOT A MAILING LIST. THUS > THEY ARE 'ENTITLED' TO SEND READ RECEIPTS AS THEY WANT TO ENSURE > THAT OUR 'HELP DESK' RECEIVED THEIR VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE. Until this > is fixed, I am not going to bother with slamming folks about sending them. > > James McKenzie > > > -----Original Message----- >>From: John Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Sent: Feb 19, 2007 5:26 PM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: [users] Members posting return receipts to an e-mail list >> >>Maybe I'm being a grumpy old coot about this, but I'm getting a little >>tired of people (mostly the moderated crowd) attaching a read receipt to >>e-mails sent out to a public mailing list. I know it's a small thing, >>just hit cancel and its done, but for the love of tux, this is annoying. >> You should reserve those read receipts for personal, time crucial >>e-mails. Finding out that I read about how you can't uninstall OO is >>not time crucial nor personal. >>Or am I just in the minority. >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Members-posting-return-receipts-to-an-e-mail-list-tf3256065.html#a9053317 Sent from the openoffice - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
