On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 04:36:42PM -0400, Chris Nandor wrote:
| >
| >So most things get read, but only those that someone feels strongly about
| >get replied to?
|
| That seems to be the case.
|
| >Having just come from "out there", it seems to me that the "silence
| >is assent" technique is a bit too fuzzy.
|
| Yep.
|
| I am not saying it is a great way to do it (and I wouldn't mind a better
| system); but part of the problem of [EMAIL PROTECTED] is that most of the
| people who can be on the list (that know enough about the issues involved,
| etc.) are (not merely conincidentally) also very busy people in general. :)
How about an auto-responder or a ticketing system with auto-responder
capability? The author of RT (http://fsck.com/projects/RT/) hangs
around on #perl on infobot.org and has offered to help set up a ticket
system if we wanted one.
At least then we could set it up to send each person an email like "Hi,
we got your message, we're very busy, but here's some general info for
you in the meantime, and you can track this ticket at <URL> if you
want". RT has an email interface so it's easy to close tickets by just
replying to the email and adding a pseudo-header like "Status: closed"
or something (IIRC).
K.
