On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Paolo Pozzan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Since the help requests were published on top of the localized AOO homepages
> there were a lot of new volunteers for localization, and this is good news.
> The problem is that the mentioned request is written in a way so that people
> understand to write directly to the mailing list without being subscribed,
> generating "a lot of" work for moderators and some confusion for who wants
> to reply.
>

The help requests I've written don't mention the mailing list
directly.  Instead they point to:
http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/translate.html

We should probably make that page reflect what we want new volunteers to do.

-Rob

> So I propose that instead of writing "You can send a note to our mailing
> list, [email protected], if you want to volunteer or if you have
> questions." just ask to join the mailing list pointing to a page section
> like this:
> http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html#localization-mailing-list
> What do you think?
>
> Else, for the more skilled email-client users, there is a way to mark
> automatically the messages coming from unsubscribed users by adding a filter
> to the client, matching the header "Delivered-to" containing the word
> "moderator", as Andrea said in a previous thread.
>
> Paolo

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