On 14/08/14 15:59, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 14/08/14 14:02, jan i wrote: >>> hi. >>> >>> Have you also noticed that the amount of AOO mails have exploded >>> lately....sounds good you think lots of activity >>> >>> SADLY the truth is different, we have a fair amoun of real mails, but >>> something like 8 of 10 are sent to multiple ML. >>> >>> It is unwise to send the same mail to multiple lists, for a couple of >>> reasons: >>> - the discussion becomes scattered over multiple ML >>> - you force your fellow community members to read the same mail several >>> times >>> - you waste our bandwith >>> >>> If most mails are copied to most ML....then why do we have so many ML, one >>> solution could be to only have dev@ and let the others be an alias >>> (absolutely not one I prefer). >>> >>> How can we stop this tendency to blow up our inboxes ? >> >> We don't do that normally but for example my mails regarding the >> availability of the RC builds are important for at least 3 lists. And I >> know that not all people are subscribed or reading dev. But I know that >> people read (are subscribed) to QA and l10n. So how can I reach all >> interested parties? For me it's simple I send an email to all lists. The >> people who are subscribed to all lists potentially found this annoying >> but for me it is more important to reach all. >> >> If you have a good idea how to solve this, I am interested to learn. >> > > Sometimes I will send to one list and cc the others (bcc will look > spammy to some tools), and then put in the first line of the body: > "Responses to Foo list only".
I did this as well several times but even this got ignored and discussion were on more than one list. So I gave up this approach. Juergen > > Regards, > > -Rob > > >> >> Juergen >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
