Comment in-line On Monday February 19 2007 9:03 pm, semaj3000 wrote: > How do we go about putting our mailing list on hold? I also plan to > switch to a new email address for this mailing list, can someone > refer me to the documentation on how to do this (or to resign up > and leave). > > I would also like to add that we need to keep this mailing list > professional as this is not a private helpdesk mailing list but a > public forum for the clients and volunteer help. I do appreciate > the work people have put in here and hope this continues. I work at > a help desk as my day job and volunteer as I can here (as I start > to learn OpenOffice myself). I try and not to chime in unless I > know a significant deal about the problem and the resolution. As I > learn more I expect to be a pretty active contributor. Maybe we > need to have a more formal helpdesk like helpstar or something else > open source out there I don't know. But do please keep this list > professional and treat the people that need help, the helpers with > respect. People took the time to use our product, still interested > enough to ask questions and not back off, we owe it to them to > listen and provide the best advice we can. With this many people > on the list we have so much potential and the resources are > endless. I would love to have this many people help me at my day > job helpdesk. I will leave you with a quote that applies to > everyone here at the OpenOffice user help mailing list > > "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." > Bill Gates > +1 Dan
> Thanks, > Jim K > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Kasak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 7:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [users] Members posting return receipts to an e-mail > list > > John Meyer wrote: > > 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. > > Agreed. And can I add one to that? > > Vacation messages. People on *this* list have been relatively good > on this so far, but it's a real pain to receive a bucket-load of > 'out of office' emails every time you send a post to the list. > People should either put their mailing list subscriptions on hold, > or *not* put an out-of-office reply on their account.
