On 04/01/2008 04:35, NoOp wrote:
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When you add something to the subject, and this is a good idea, *please*
leave the [moderated] or [users] tag in place. Some (many?) of us that
do assist unsubscribed posts do not wish to wade through each header to
find out if the post is subscribed or not. The [users] and [moderated]
tags flag that it is from an unsubscribed user, so it is easy to then cc
the poster without having to look at the headers.
I don't think this is right.
1. You get the "[moderated]" as part of the subject line when you click
the mailto: link on the OpenOffice.org support page (at
http://www.openoffice.org/contact.html ) regardless of whether or not
you are subscribed. To see this, go to that web page and hover your
mouse over the mailto: link at the numbered point #2 near the middle of
the page. Note that there's another #2 lower down; that's *not* the one
I mean.
2. You don't get "[moderated]" if you type your own subject line (unless
you explicitly include it) even if you are not subscribed; the
moderator's software does *not* insert it.
As has been noted before, the *only* way to tell if the poster is
unsubscribed is by the presence of a "Delivered-To:" header containing
"moderator for [email protected]" and, if I remember correctly, even
this is not 100% reliable because it doesn't catch unsubscribed users
who send messages via Gmane's news interface.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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