On 09/25/2007 06:04 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 18:25 25/09/2007 +0100, Harold Fuchs wrote: >>So far you've had about 40 replies but "paul" said the list owner >>had told him "Thanks to CPH, there are 2481 subscribed email >>addresses to the user list." > > Wow! My earlier message suggested that "thousands of people [] must > be subscribed to this list" and also that "Junk mail response rates > of one or two percent are considered good". 2481 is certainly > "thousands" and 40 is 1.6% of 2481. > > Where do I claim my prize, please? > > ;^) > > Brian Barker
Here was a post over on the website-dev list & my reply: On 09/23/2007 08:39 PM, Andrew Jensen wrote: > > -1 > > > > Looking at the mailing list traffic for the month there are 487 > > different people that have posted to the list, 441 of them posted 5 or > > less messages. 378 posted less then 3 times. ( Most likely, asked a > > question and thanked folks for the help ) > > > > Of the 1,927 total emails 15 people accounted for 837 or ~44% of all > > the traffic. Indeed 2 individuals accounted for a full 12% or 237 > > emails. > > > > It would seem that finding some way to help the 15 people that > > actually help users is good, but not at the expense of the 378 that > > wanted to ask one question. > > My reply: Unless of course those 15 people stop helping & let the messages go into the ether because they continually have to look at headers to see if a post is moderated/unsubscribed or not... Here is what I propose: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6286 <quote> I believe that the original proposal to provide a msg to the unsubscribed poster is a good one. In addition, I propose that *all* unsubscribed messages be tagged with "[Moderated]" at the start of the subject line. Currently on the [email protected] list many unsubscribed posts are not tagged as such, while some are. This creates a situation whereby those of us that assist new/unsubscribed posters are required to look at each header before responding to see if needs to be cc'd in the reply. This places an unnecessary burden on list responders who are voluntarily spending time assisting OOo. The situation becomes even more burdensome for those responders that read and respond via the gmane news server as many popular newsreaders (Thunderbird for example) are not capable of filtering on headers such as: Delivered-To: moderator for [email protected] There is considerable debate as to whether unsubscribed messages should even be allowed, one which most likely will not be resolved any time soon. However, if unsubscribed postings are to allowed, then the [Moderated] tag should be added to *all* unsubscribed postings. </quote> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
