Perhaps since the traffic on this list isn't too large, you can post a "How to Help Out" every day, or every other day.
Or what about putting it on the footer of the mailing list? So add the line I marked: To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***** To find out how you can contribute, visit [http://aaa.bbb.ccc/ddd.html] -----Original Message----- From: Brian Behlendorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 3:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: To those interested in helping out On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > James Strachan asked: > > Can the mailing list software automatically detect that the sender > > isn't on the list and that they mention Geronimo in the mail and > > send an automated reply? > > You'd have to ask infrastructure. Hopefully the volume of such requests > will dwindle as people find the project's page. Um, this list and geronimo-dev are both configured to bounce any messages from non-subscribers to the moderator (moderators for general@ are gstein, geirm, and coar, moderators for geronimo-dev are gstein, geirm, and jim, all @apache.org) who then can decide whether to approve that message to be passed along to the rest of the list. The moderator has other options: if it's spam they can just ignore the moderation request and it'll be culled from the queue after 10 days. Or, they can reject the message, and give a reason for the rejection, and that reason will go back to the original poster. I suspect the moderators are taking the fast approach (due to volume) and approving messages through rather than rejecting them with a reason. The list configuration could be changed to reject all messages from non-subscribers, and the message for that blanket rejection can be configured to give pointers to the project web page, etc. Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
