Jim, Returning my reply to the list, in case anyone else misunderstood my previous appeal.
What kind of indicator do you want from the moderators? Do we want more useless posts (eg. Dealt with off-list by moderator) to clutter up the list archives? If all those <Q>"users with some skills and knowledge"</Q> ignore those posts and assume the moderators will deal with them (which we do in almost every case), they could spend more time answering "real" support questions. This minimizes thread hijacking, <Q>"the whining bullshit"</Q> and repeated unsubscribe advice. Do you have an alternative suggestion? Regards Dave Jim McLaughlin wrote: > Dave - > > The problem with your suggestion re thread hijackers is that the > hijackers are extremely annoying, and there is never any indicator that > any moderator is doing anything, on line or off line, to end any given > "unsunscribe" spasm from a dummy. > > Absent an indicator from a "moderator", users with some skills and > knowledge will be incentivized to instruct the person seeking to > unsubscribe to end the whining bullshit. > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Dave Barton <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > -------- Original Message -------- > From: Bob Holtzman > Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 13:13:13 -0700 > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 06:45:21AM -0700, William and Michele > Suepke wrote: > >> Hello OpenOffice, > >> I have been trying to unsubscripte from these email with no > luck. Please > >> unsubscribe me or the next time I get an email I will delete as > spam. I > >> don't want to do it that way but if is stops the emails, good. > > > > By all means do that. While you're at it, learn not to hijack threads. > > Folks, can I appeal to you all to please ignore these "unsubscribe me" > messages and leave it to the moderators to handle them off-list, > > Undoubtedly done with the best of intentions, those replies only serve > to make any thread hijacking worse. Yes, I am contributing to the > problem by posting to this thread, but in this case the damage has > already been done. > > Most of these "unsubscribe me, or else..." posts come from people who > have little or no knowledge of what a mailing is, let alone > understanding the concept of threads. How they manage to get themselves > subscribed in the first place is a constant source of amazement. > > Thanks & Regards > Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
