(please cut as much as possible of the messages you reply to, thanks)
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 11:00:12 AM +0000, Michele ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As much as I share Marco's frustration with people who do not add a
> meaningful subject to their emails, I am not sure I fully agree with
> his proposals.
> The purpose of this list is to help people who use OpenOffice.org,
> and these people need not to be familiar with email writing or
> netiquette experts.
I have already said that the major damage is not done by this class of
people, but by the SUBSCRIBED users which:
- know email mailing lists well enough to make a lot of unnecessary
filtering of headers an what not
- for any subjectless question send out ten subject replies, replies
to replies etc..
- haven't bothered in the slightest, so far, to speak in this thread
- but are still sending out regularly subjectless replies while this
thread goes on
and the real problem (again, this is my fault for making all examples
with [moderated] in the subject) has NOTHING to do with unexperienced,
unsubscribed users. It would be the same if a subscribed user forgot
to add a subject.
In addition to this, I have already said myself that "helping"
unexperienced users by sending an automatic reminder, netiquette
summary, whatever, could and should be automated, so no objection from
me there. My suggestion to ignore such messages (I violated it myself
one or two times two days ago, if you check the archives) should be
intended mainly as a way to push moderators to implement such
measures.
Marco
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