On Friday 04 November 2011 09:47, Michael Adams wrote:
> On Thursday 03 November 2011 00:48, Rob Weir wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Michael Adams
>
> <linux_m...@clear.net.nz> wrote:
> > > Who now owns the website domain name?
> > >
> > > What i am really asking is, how easy would it be to set up a
> > > temporary forwarder for emails to a moderator from
> > > us...@openoffice.org and disc...@openoffice.org. If you own the
> > > A record and the mail server it is easy.
> > >
> > > My main concern stems from the fact that together they still
> > > generate as much if not more mail/queries than this list.
> >
> > Have yous seen the user list traffic lately?  Seems to be mainly
> > out-of-the-office notifications and users confused about how to
> > unsubscribe.  That leads to a death spiral for a list, as more of
> > this noise drives more people to unsubsbcribe.
>
> This months threads to date:
>  * One auto responder repeated three times
>  * One email advising the list is being replaced
>  * Six query threads
>
> Auto responders were always a pain to to the excessively low
> threshold to entry placed on the public OO.o lists i.e. no
> subscription necessary.

Correction ... a pain due to ...

> > In any case, we need to help users resusbcribe to the new list if
> > they want to continue participation.  The old list is not coming
> > down immediately, like this week or anything.  So we have time
> > for an orderly migration.

-- 
Michael

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