On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
I've gone ahead and updated that web page so it asks translation volunteers to subscribe to this list. See: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/translate.html Hopefully this will help. -Rob > -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
