On 12-09-15, at 11:34 , "Dennis E. Hamilton" <[email protected]> wrote:
> With regard to inappropriate messages to ooo-private, I agree that it is a > good idea to provide better information and to discourage the use of > ooo-private for this kind of traffic. I think one problem is that some folks > want their request to be personal and all think they are (or want to be) > reaching a support organization. yes. > > I conducted an experiment to see how the list rejects messages. The bounce I > received is the message immediately below. The original request to > ooo-private was returned in an attachment. That is attached to this message > but I don't know that it will be preserved on ooo-dev. What that message is > like is posted below the Rejection Message. Peter can probably speak to this, too, but when I was doing this kind of list and many others at OOo, I received routinely a lot of posts to webmasters@, usually by people wanting to communicate with a Turing-competent entity, like me, or even better. They reached that list/alias via contacts@. No matter what we wrote on that page, no matter how they were redirected to the Support page—no matter what, short of Moses and some tablets—they did what I do when confronted with voicemail and sought humanity in an electron. So it goes. Lesson: live with it but try all the same. Louis > > - Dennis > > > -----Rejection Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 08:20 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Returned post for [email protected] > > > Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the > [email protected] mailing list. > > I'm sorry, your message (enclosed) was not accepted by the moderator. > If the moderator has made any comments, they are shown below. > >>>>>> -------------------- >>>>> > This is a test rejection message from the ooo-private list robot. This > comment is supplied by the moderator. > The purpose of this test is to determine how useful reject messages or a > replacement boilerplate could be helpful in directing users with problems to > an appropriate place where they are likely to receive assistance. > <<<<< -------------------- <<<<< > > > -----Rejected Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 08:03 > To: OOo-private Apache Incubator > Subject: PLEASE REJECT THIS MESSAGE > > Sorry about that. I did not realize that [email protected] was listed as > subscribed. Trying again. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 07:57 > To: OOo-private Apache Incubator > Subject: PLEASE REJECT THIS MESSAGE > > This is a test request form an unsubscribed user. It is being submitted to > see how useful rejection messages are. Please reject this message. Please > use the %%% markers and add a statement to the rejection message. > > - Dennis ([email protected]) > > > <Mail Attachment.eml>
