I agree with Michele that ignoring people's messages may not be the most
welcoming of choices.
Would the more experienced users simply be willing to update subject lines?
For example:
The incoming subject line:
Newbie here
which is clearly meaningless, could be updated, say, to:
Opening MS Office files in OO (WAS: Newbie here)
or whatever the actual topic is.
I do this sort of renaming routinely in several discussion groups I moderate
(on different subject matter), and it seems to work quite well. My new
subject line simply names and begins a new thread, which anyone can then
follow. And by including the original subject line in my "WAS clause", I
allow the original author to find my response to his/her original inquiry.
I've updated the subject line for this thread, which I find uninformative,
as an example of what I mean.
How about this idea?
Best to all,
Elchanan
-----Original Message-----
From: Michele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 5:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [users] To moderators and all volunteers of OOo users list
>>> My suggestion to ignore such messages [with no subject] (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.
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OK Marco,
I think we are in agreement on what we want to achieve, but "punishing" the
poor inexperienced users by ignoring their messages still does not sound
right.
<<< snip >>>
Cheers,
Michele
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