Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-08 Thread Harold Fuchs
2010/1/8 M. Fioretti mfiore...@nexaima.net snip The only way to reduce the hundreds of such messages (and the unsubscription requests deriving from how annoying they are) which is both really easy AND surely working is to do what I already explained here:

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 09:15:34 AM +, Harold Fuchs wrote: In the discussion you cite above you say: Whenever you answer at ooo-users, ALWAYS send the reply to both the OP and the list. Period. I think this suggestion easily makes it onto the shortlist of candidates for the most asinine

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-08 Thread Lars Nooden
M. Fioretti wrote: I have not clear how a switch to mailman would reduce such messages. Mailman is much more configurable. The configuration option Generic nonmember action can be used to either auto-subscribe the unsubscribed sender, reply with a warning, or both, or something else such as

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 14:50:25 PM +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: M. Fioretti wrote: I have not clear how a switch to mailman would reduce such messages. Mailman is much more configurable. Yes, but first of all, I am not sure that it would or could ever cope with all the situations that people

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-08 Thread Barbara Duprey
M. Fioretti wrote: On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 14:50:25 PM +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: M. Fioretti wrote: I have not clear how a switch to mailman would reduce such messages. Mailman is much more configurable. Yes, but first of all, I am not sure that it would or could ever cope

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-08 Thread Gene Young
Barbara Duprey wrote: M. Fioretti wrote: Marco Why is this discussion staying on the users list? A very good question. One which I was going to ask, but I hit my plonk button instead. g -- Gene Y. - To unsubscribe,

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 08:38:27 AM -0600, Barbara Duprey wrote: Why is this discussion staying on the users list? Don't ask me. When I was asked off list about the same thing I answered off list. When I asked on list I answered on list, also because the technical competence shown in that other

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-08 Thread Lars Nooden
Barbara Duprey wrote: Why is this discussion staying on the users list? Because in practice most of the users' list messages are about administrivia, especially dealing with list management. But for what it is worth here is a bug report and discussion can move there:

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, January 6, 2010 4:54 am, Dave Barton wrote: Dave, I do wish you success with your support web form. This, however: Over the years there has been much protracted debate and argument about the rights, wrongs and the mechanism of allowing non-subscribed posters to send moderated

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-07 Thread Lars Nooden
M. Fioretti wrote: I suggest that everybody just follows the strategy explained here: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discussmsgNo=65332 What would be the correct venue to get the users' list upgraded to Mailman and off of CollabNet? /Lars

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 21:40:55 PM +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: M. Fioretti wrote: I suggest that everybody just follows the strategy explained here: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discussmsgNo=65332 What would be the correct venue to get the users' list upgraded to

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-07 Thread Lars Nooden
M. Fioretti wrote: On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 21:40:55 PM +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: M. Fioretti wrote: I suggest that everybody just follows the strategy explained here: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discussmsgNo=65332 What would be the correct venue to get the users' list

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 23:18:41 PM +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: What would be the correct venue to get the users' list upgraded to Mailman and off of CollabNet? ... I have not clear *why* you are asking this. The hundreds of messages each quarter about unsubscribing, I have not clear how

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-07 Thread Clayton
What would be the correct venue to get the users' list upgraded to Mailman and off of CollabNet? The simple answer is this: http://kenai.com/projects/ooo-migration/pages/Home C. -- Clayton Cornell ccorn...@openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead Sun Microsystems,

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 08:25:42 AM +0100, Clayton wrote: What would be the correct venue to get the users' list upgraded to Mailman and off of CollabNet? The simple answer is this: http://kenai.com/projects/ooo-migration/pages/Home Interesting, I didn't know about that, thanks. It seems

[users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-05 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: Andreas Saeger saege...@onlinehome.de To: users@openoffice.org Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:41:21 +0100 Barbara Duprey wrote: As far as the list is concerned, you are subscribed because you are posting through Gmane. Such posts do not go through the