On 4 Jan 2008 at 11:00, Michele wrote: .... > 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. ... > Rather than simply ignoring these emails then, they should be > (automatically?) replied with a preformatted message where the user is > invited to post again, this time adding a subject. > something along these lines could do: > "Your message did not include a subject and will be most likely ignored by > the volunteers who provide their support to the users list. You are kindly ... > The message may also illustrate the benefits of subscribing, digest mode, > links to netiquette and so on, as long as you don't make it too long ;-)
Even better one could analyse the message automagically and suggest likely answers as well as giving appropriate posting guidelines. I'm still not entirely sure why I got 'shouted down' a few weeks ago when I suggested the same. Whatever others on the list may think, for my own part I consider it a thorough waste of good people's time to answer, for example, a subjectless message asking (for the umpteenth time) whether OOo runs on Vista. Or pointing out - again - that /this/ list is in English. Or whatever. I always thought computers were there to handle the boringly routine drudgery, leaving people for the bits that require some original input. -- http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
