NoOp wrote:
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>
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NoOp:
Actually Thunderbird can filter on Delivered To. You just have to
create a customized header in the Filters dialog.
TomW
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