Re: Quick Office Pro

2014-12-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 02/12/2014 Andrea Pescetti wrote: let's make it a project decision and not an individual decision. I'll take this to the dev list now and, subject to lazy consensus, in three days you will be able to reject Quick Office Pro messages with backing from the project. Update: we have consensus; s

RE: Quick Office Pro

2014-12-07 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Quick Office Pro My 2 cents as forum moderator. We agreed on the forum to reject spam only. Therefore, we do not filter such question when they come (but they are rather rare). In such case we move them to the "General discussion" section with the a

Re: Quick Office Pro

2014-12-07 Thread Hagar Delest
Original Message- From: Simon Phipps [mailto:si...@webmink.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 13:51 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Quick Office Pro On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Dave Barton wrote: Simon Phipps wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Dave Barton wrote: Simon Ph

Re: Quick Office Pro

2014-12-03 Thread jonathon
On 03/12/14 08:52, mt wrote: > The idea of preparing a standard response to common posts that might > create confusion/disruption on list is a very good one. +1 >For these reasons, we are unable to make our forums/mailing lists available to support other software products, including [Quick Off

Re: Quick Office Pro

2014-12-03 Thread Julian Thomas
> On Dec 3, 2014, at 03:52, mt wrote: > > For these reasons, we are unable to make our forums/mailing lists available > to support other software products, including [Quick Office Pro or whatever], > which are sold and distributed by commercial entities as profit-making > products. > > We th

RE: Quick Office Pro

2014-12-03 Thread mt
I'm not a moderator on this list, however I have some experience from running & moderating other busy mailing lists for a long time. So I'm putting this forward just as a suggestion, which I have found to work perfectly in similar situations - hope this is OK. The idea of preparing a standard

RE: Quick Office Pro

2014-12-02 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Correcting (1-2) -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 14:42 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: RE: Quick Office Pro I support what Simon proposes to do for the following reasons: 1. We are talking about

RE: Quick Office Pro

2014-12-02 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
lind principle of any value in this instance. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Simon Phipps [mailto:si...@webmink.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 13:51 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Quick Office Pro On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Dave Barton wrote: > Simon Phipps

Re: Quick Office Pro

2014-12-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 02/12/2014 Dave Barton wrote: As inconvenient (probably irritating) as it is for list subscribers to see this kind of post, we stand at the top of a very slippery slope if we, as individuals, start making this kind of unilateral arbitrary decision. I see your point. I'm confident nobody want

Re: Quick Office Pro

2014-12-02 Thread Simon Phipps
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Dave Barton wrote: > Simon Phipps wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Dave Barton wrote: > > > >> Simon Phipps wrote: > >>> MODERATORS: I have started rejecting incoming e-mails like this one > >> with a > >>> message stating that QuickOffice is unrelated

Re: Quick Office Pro

2014-12-02 Thread Dave Barton
Simon Phipps wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Dave Barton wrote: > >> Simon Phipps wrote: >>> MODERATORS: I have started rejecting incoming e-mails like this one >> with a >>> message stating that QuickOffice is unrelated to Apache and AOO and they >>> should contact their supplier. I su

Re: Quick Office Pro

2014-12-02 Thread Dave Barton
Sorry Jim, but I disagree. It is not a moderator's responsibility or requirement to answer questions on behalf of the list, be it by way of a rejection or otherwise. Moderators are little more than "backstops" for garbage that slips past infra's (pretty good) filters and to deal with subscriber iss

Re: Quick Office Pro

2014-12-02 Thread Simon Phipps
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Dave Barton wrote: > Simon Phipps wrote: > > MODERATORS: I have started rejecting incoming e-mails like this one > with a > > message stating that QuickOffice is unrelated to Apache and AOO and they > > should contact their supplier. I suggest other moderators ado

Re: Quick Office Pro

2014-12-02 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Exactly. That's why Simon is providing info that OO/ Apache is not related to Quick Office; explaining that this group can't help re QO, and directing the person making inquiry to a possible source for help since that help can't be obtained here. I can't think of a better function for a MODERATO

Re: Quick Office Pro

2014-12-02 Thread Dave Barton
Simon Phipps wrote: > MODERATORS: I have started rejecting incoming e-mails like this one with a > message stating that QuickOffice is unrelated to Apache and AOO and they > should contact their supplier. I suggest other moderators adopt the same > approach. > > S. -1 We are MODERATORS, not the

Re: Quick Office Pro

2014-12-02 Thread Simon Phipps
MODERATORS: I have started rejecting incoming e-mails like this one with a message stating that QuickOffice is unrelated to Apache and AOO and they should contact their supplier. I suggest other moderators adopt the same approach. S. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > De

Re: Quick Office Pro

2014-12-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Des O'Shaughnessy wrote: I have a quick Office pro app That app claims to come from OpenOffice, but this is not true. It is totally unrelated to the OpenOffice project http://openoffice.org ; please report the app to the App Store. And of course we can't help you since this mailing list is f

Re: Quick office pro lost?

2014-09-25 Thread NoOp
On 09/22/2014 04:26 AM, T wrote: > Not sure what a binary is. I just had thought if I got the app again, > my files might come back with it? Just a reach I guess. I wasn't > really sure how that worked. Is that even possible? As others have already mentioned, that app is bogus and you should repor

Re: Quick office pro lost?

2014-09-22 Thread jd1008
On 09/22/2014 05:26 AM, T wrote: Not sure what a binary is. I just had thought if I got the app again, my files might come back with it? Just a reach I guess. I wasn't really sure how that worked. Is that even possible? Terribly sorry for your loss, but you do not seem to have any idea what

Re: Quick office pro lost?

2014-09-22 Thread James Knott
On 09/22/2014 07:26 AM, T wrote: > Not sure what a binary is. I just had thought if I got the app again, my > files might come back with it? Just a reach I guess. I wasn't really sure how > that worked. Is that even possible? > Your files should not have disappeared. They should still be there

Re: Quick office pro lost?

2014-09-22 Thread T
Not sure what a binary is. I just had thought if I got the app again, my files might come back with it? Just a reach I guess. I wasn't really sure how that worked. Is that even possible? > On Sep 21, 2014, at 5:32 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > >> On 09/21/2014 03:57 PM, T wrote: >> Hello, >> My iP

Re: Quick office pro lost?

2014-09-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
T wrote: Hello, My iPad crashed a few weeks ago, and I had Quick office pro. I tried to buy the app, the 2.99 one, but it is 4 pages of how to use. Is there something I can buy to replace, and get those files back? Tabitha This mailing list is for the Apache OpenOffice project: http://www.open

Re: Quick office pro lost?

2014-09-21 Thread jd1008
On 09/21/2014 03:57 PM, T wrote: Hello, My iPad crashed a few weeks ago, and I had Quick office pro. I tried to buy the app, the 2.99 one, but it is 4 pages of how to use. Is there something I can buy to replace, and get those files back? Tabitha