Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-04-12 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Len Copley wrote on 2011-04-12 14.35: Hi, no I did not receive a reply, to any of my unsubscribe e-mails. 1. did you check your spam folder? 2. If nothing is in your spam folder, please send the unsubscribe e-mail again, and then forward (not Cc!) it to me. I will then have a look into t

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-04-12 Thread Len Copley
Hi, no I did not receive a reply, to any of my unsubscribe e-mails. On 12/04/2011 8:17 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello, Len Copley wrote on 2011-04-12 12.57: Hi yes I sent about three or four. please *READ* my e-mail *THOROUGHLY*: 1. Did you send an empty e-mail to users+unsubscr...@li

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-04-12 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, Len Copley wrote on 2011-04-12 12.57: Hi yes I sent about three or four. please *READ* my e-mail *THOROUGHLY*: 1. Did you send an empty e-mail to users+unsubscr...@libreoffice.org? 2. If so, did you receive an automatic reply back? 3. If so, did you send the *CONFIRMATION* e-mail as de

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-04-12 Thread Len Copley
Hi yes I sent about three or four. On 12/04/2011 6:42 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello, Len Copley wrote on 2011-04-12 12.39: I know what you are going through, as I to have tried to unsubscribe, as some of the people on this forum do not have a great education an become quite abusive. It

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-04-12 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, Len Copley wrote on 2011-04-12 12.39: I know what you are going through, as I to have tried to unsubscribe, as some of the people on this forum do not have a great education an become quite abusive. It is not worth being on this forum, when it is taken to the lowest common denominator.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-04-12 Thread Len Copley
I know what you are going through, as I to have tried to unsubscribe, as some of the people on this forum do not have a great education an become quite abusive. It is not worth being on this forum, when it is taken to the lowest common denominator. On 9/03/2011 6:10 PM, Bill Sippo wrote: NoO

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/03/2011 NoOp wrote: > Note: it seems that I've fallen into this category on the OOo list; > after 5 years of posts, I'm suddenly no longer subscribed, nor can I > comment on OOo bug reports any longer unless I create a new > username/password... but that's another story Yes, that is another

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-12 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Charles, Charles Marcus wrote on 2011-03-12 20.00: I know... but the pain would be one time only. Unless you are planning on building a complete web interface for mlmmj, I just don't see a practical alternative, other than continuing to see these stupid 'UNSUBSCRIBE ME NOW OR I'LL SUE EVERY

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-12 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-03-12 7:56 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > to be serious: Do not think we will migrate the mailing lists soon. It > will be *A LOT* of work, Maybe not... I'll go check and see if there is an easy way to migrate the archives and user accounts (the two hardest part of the migration I'm gues

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-12 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello Charles, Charles Marcus wrote on 2011-03-11 22.20: Then there is one massive reason to plan to switch to mailman once version 3 is ready (sounds like only a matter of months), since that version will remove all of the other objections, and provide a nice web interface for people to manage

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-11 Thread Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi Charles, *, Charles Marcus schrieb: > On 2011-03-11 4:16 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: >>> I have seen no - ZERO - reasonable explanation as to how this >>> causes *more* trouble... please reiterate... >> O.K.: All subscribers not subscribed for "normal" mail will get >> trouble. recall: no

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-11 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-03-11 4:16 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: >> I have seen no - ZERO - reasonable explanation as to how this causes >> *more* trouble... please reiterate... > O.K.: All subscribers not subscribed for "normal" mail will get > trouble. recall: no universal unsubscribe for whatever subscriptio

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-11 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-03-11 1:39 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Charles Marcus wrote on 2011-03-11 19.15: >> Does mlmmj not have a web interface for list members? > Nope. Then there is one massive reason to plan to switch to mailman once version 3 is ready (sounds like only a matter of months), since that ve

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-11 Thread Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi Charles, *, Charles Marcus schrieb: > On 2011-03-11 9:52 AM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: >> Charles Marcus schrieb: >>> So change the footer to something like: >>> Unsubscribe: E-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org >>> List Help: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org >>

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Nope. Charles Marcus wrote on 2011-03-11 19.15: Does mlmmj not have a web interface for list members? -- Florian Effenberger Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsub

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-11 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-03-11 10:47 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hi, > > Charles Marcus wrote on 2011-03-11 14.52: >> 2. Don't require the user to REPLY to the email - include a clickable >> LINK in the email they can click on to execute the unsub request. > > mlmmj does not provide that out of the box. Some

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-11 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-03-11 9:52 AM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: > Charles Marcus schrieb: >> So change the footer to something like: >> >> Unsubscribe: E-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org >> List Help: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org >> Archive: http://listarchives.documentfounda

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Charles Marcus wrote on 2011-03-11 14.52: 2. Don't require the user to REPLY to the email - include a clickable LINK in the email they can click on to execute the unsub request. mlmmj does not provide that out of the box. Someone would have to code it. Florian -- Florian Effenberger Ste

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-11 Thread Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi Charles, *, Charles Marcus schrieb: > On 2011-03-11 6:55 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: [..] > So change the footer to something like: > -- > Unsubscribe: E-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org > List Help: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > Archive: http://listarch

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-11 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-03-11 6:55 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > Again: No matter how fat discaimers or how often you write > instructions on the website: You will *always* have to deal with > stupid people. That's true, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't make things as clear and simple as possible to minimize

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-11 Thread Christian Lohmaier
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:29 AM, NoOp wrote: > On 03/10/2011 05:09 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 6:17 AM, NoOp wrote: >>> On 03/09/2011 06:16 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > [...] >>> to share your expertise with us, without calling people stupid or >>> ignorant, come b

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, NoOp wrote on 2011-03-11 04.51: Then perhaps a reminder email after 48 hours going back to advise something along the lines of: honestly, I think this makes things even more complicated. Note to Florian: Starting next week I'll install mlmmj on one of my test servers and see if I can ga

[tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-10 Thread NoOp
On 03/10/2011 05:09 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 6:17 AM, NoOp wrote: >> On 03/09/2011 06:16 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: >> ... >>> And you mentioned that one could have learned from OOo lists: >>> Ha, that is a good one. The OOo lists have explicit unsubscribe >>> ins

[tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-10 Thread NoOp
On 03/10/2011 02:47 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: > Hi Charles, *, > > Charles Marcus schrieb: >> On 2011-03-10 8:09 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > >>> The one situation where unsubscribing is "difficult" is when the >>> reply asking for confirmation to unsubscribe is flagged as spam and >>> t

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-10 Thread Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi Charles, *, Charles Marcus schrieb: > On 2011-03-10 8:09 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: >> The one situation where unsubscribing is "difficult" is when the >> reply asking for confirmation to unsubscribe is flagged as spam and >> thus not sorted to the user's inbox, but then again that's not th

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-10 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-03-10 8:09 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > or they're too > dumb/stupid/ignorant to read the automatic reply asking for > confirmation (i.e. another reply). > The one situation where unsubscribing is "difficult" is when the reply > asking for confirmation to unsubscribe is flagged as spam a

[tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-10 Thread NoOp
On 03/10/2011 03:08 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: ... > infrastructure budget. I'm not commenting on the language (you also > insulted me above, so don't throw the first stone), but he surely knows > what he is doing in technical terms. My sincere apologies. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-ma

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-10 Thread Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi Florian, NoOp, *, Florian Effenberger schrieb: > NoOp wrote on 2011-03-10 06.10: [..] > If you have a good proposal, let me know. We, however, tried every > solution, and mlmmj seemed best. +1 > What we, and that's where I agree with you, need is some web interface > that helps users in man

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-10 Thread Christian Lohmaier
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 6:17 AM, NoOp wrote: > On 03/09/2011 06:16 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > ... >> And you mentioned that one could have learned from OOo lists: >> Ha, that is a good one. The OOo lists have explicit unsubscribe >> instructions in *every* footer, but still people complain ab

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-10 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-03-10 7:16 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > sure, they can - the logon in Mailman is solely with a password, so no > matter if you get notified or not, you can always open the magic URL and > look into the queue. Dang, you're right, I forgot it only asks for password... Wonder if that can

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-10 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Charles Marcus wrote on 2011-03-10 12.58: Do you? You can simply remove the moderators email address from the web interface, and they can no longer moderate, even if they have the password, because they are no longer a moderator - same for Admins. sure, they can - the logon in Mailman is

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-10 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-03-10 6:52 AM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: > Shared password *never* is a good idea. You don't know, where they are > and if You have to change the moderaters group - i.e. excluding some - > for any reason, the change of password is obligatory and affects all > active moderators. Do you? Y

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-10 Thread Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi Charles, *, Charles Marcus schrieb: > On 03/09/2011 02:07 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: >> 1. Moderation via e-mail is not comfortable. It especially requires >> one password shared among all moderators, which is inconvenient. > Why is this inconvenient? Shared password *never* is a good id

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-10 Thread Charles Marcus
On 03/09/2011 02:07 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hello, > > Mailman has not been chosen mainly out of two reasons: > > 1. Moderation via e-mail is not comfortable. It especially requires one > password shared among all moderators, which is inconvenient. Why is this inconvenient? -- Best

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-10 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Charles Marcus wrote on 2011-03-10 12.27: Mailman 3 will be solving this for good, but one alternative until it is Yep, heard about it, but no one knows when it will be released. :/ released would be to identify each list in the listname itself rather than the domain, ie: Instead of:

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-10 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-03-09 5:10 AM, Bill Sippo wrote: > A while back I joined the users mail list, and since then have been receiving > in my in-box each day a large number of messages, more than I can handle, so > I've been trying to unsubscribe. I'm using the information and unsubscribe > link from the bo

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-10 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-03-10 6:08 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Yes. But it would *not* be possible to have something like > @de.libreoffice.org, @it.libreoffice.org or @us.libreoffice.org then, at > least not as we have it now. Look at the Ubuntu page. All lists reside > at the same subdomain. Quoting from th

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-10 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, NoOp wrote on 2011-03-10 06.10: No idea& no real preference other than the ablity for the user to login and modify their profile settings& subscribe/unsubscribe. That said I Which settings do you want to user to change? Basically, only his address as well as the subscription type, o

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-10 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Bill, Bill Sippo wrote on 2011-03-09 11.10: A while back I joined the users mail list, and since then have been receiving in my in-box each day a large number of messages, more than I can handle, so I've been trying to unsubscribe. I'm using the information and unsubscribe link from the bot

[tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-09 Thread NoOp
On 03/09/2011 06:16 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: ... > > And you mentioned that one could have learned from OOo lists: > Ha, that is a good one. The OOo lists have explicit unsubscribe > instructions in *every* footer, but still people complain about not > knowing to unsubscribe. So having that i

[tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-09 Thread NoOp
On 03/09/2011 02:07 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hello, > > Mailman has not been chosen mainly out of two reasons: > > 1. Moderation via e-mail is not comfortable. It especially requires one > password shared among all moderators, which is inconvenient. > > 2. Although virtual domains are s

[tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-09 Thread Bill Sippo
NoOp sbcglobal.net> writes: > > Of late there are multiple posts on the users list regarding mail list > subscribe and unsubscribe issues. > > .. > ... However, the > current issue of mail list subscribers not being able to > subscribe/unsubscribe/modify

[tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-08 Thread NoOp
On 03/08/2011 07:05 PM, NoOp wrote: ... > 4. Why is it necesary to send an email for unsubscribe instructions? > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org > etc at all? Hello... is this some type of secret handshake that takes > place to get off of the users list? > > This