On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > Dave Barton wrote: >> >> it would be a big help if the list software could be >> configured to tag the subject line of messages that had passed >> moderation with something like [MODERATED]. This was done (albeit not >> with 100% reliably) on the old OOo users list. > > > I investigated this with Infra last year. I even posted to the ezmlm-idx > mailing list looking for possible solutions. But this went nowhere: Infra is > not going to hack the software and developers apparently are not going to > implement this feature. If someone wants further details and links to > restart the discussion I can retrieve them. >
I run a script over the mbox files to see how many posts are from non-subscribers. Over 2013 40% of new threads on the users list are started by non-subscribers. So this is very common. My practice is to copy the poster on any response unless the name is familiar to me as a regular poster. This is non-optimal, since that can lead the the followup post coming to me alone. In any case, the 40% number shows that this is not a random occasional accident, but is a mainstream way of using this mailing list. If we changed the list to disallow posts by non-subscribers (which we could) then we'd have the different problem of the 40% who have a single question to post, but then have difficulties unsubscribing. As we know that can generated even more noise on the list. Regards, -Rob > Regards, > Andrea. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
