Hi Christian,
Christian Lohmaier wrote (5-2-2008 14:21)
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 06:32:14PM +0100, Cor Nouws wrote:
From users@ and some other places, there are ideas, not to say wishes
;-), to improve something with the traffic on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Before starting a discussion on marketing@, about what and why, I think
it is wise to have clarity about for example, if it is possible to have
forms in some sort, on the OOo website.
It would be possible to hava javascript driven forms, but...
Forms that could be used, for
example, to help non experienced mailers to set up a clear message.
.. it won't be able to send emails with that. You could construct a
mailto:// URL that has a subject given and even there is a body tag that
could be used, but unfortunately not all mail-clients support that
syntax and thus it might not work well.
The only way I see to reduce traffic on that list is to make that list a
moderated-only list where people can subscribe, but only allowed posters
can write directly, everything else is passed through a bunch of
moderators. The moderators would reject every non-conformant request
with a standard-answer and only let those pass that match the minimum
quality standard.
But for that to work, you need to have quite a number of moderators that
can handle the load.
I cannot think of another method than by humans sorting out the mails.
A webpage can lead users through the important points, but then you'd
have to say: Please copy this text in your mail-client (since there is
no "form to mailinglist" interface or similar, the user would have to
use his own smtp-server/mail client to actually send the mail.
Who knows this? Where is a list with can's and cannots?
Well, the cannots: Almost everything.
Cans: (x)html, css, javascript/client side scripting. That's about it
unfortunately.
Thanks for your extensive explanation.
My short summary: reasonable guidance by using forms and scripts to have
better edited mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is hard. Only humans doing the
moderator job can really help.
Apart from contributing with an update for the page /OOo/contact, I want
to raise "the issue": making [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscription-only.
The issue sure is mentioned before, but has it ever been discussed by
the entity/project (which ?) that is entitled to decide on this?
I'm prepared to make a start to bite this bullet ...
Regards,
Cor
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"The Year of 3" -2008- "Het jaar van 3"
Cor Nouws
Arnhem - Netherlands - nl.OpenOffice.org - marketing contact
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