Re: CONFIRM'ing replies only in smartlist for announcement lists
Thierry Laronde <thierry.laronde@polynum.com> writes:
> This is a part of the solution. But the "education" part should be an
> automatic sending of a kind of "greeting page" to a new subscriber
> explaining shortly the basic notions :
> - What is the list for
> - How to behave on the list
> - Where to look first before asking a question --- specially useful for
> the users' list : a pointer to the FAQ.
Doesn't this already happen? Usually when I join mailing lists I get
about 2-3 messages; how to use the list, what the list is for, etc.
> I have tried the last weeks to ask listmaster, debian-admin : no answer.
> I asked on debian-devel : no answer.
> I asked Darren O. Benham : immediate and kind answer. But Darren is not
> responsible for this task.
> So, you want a filter for the wrong replies to the wrong list.
> I agree.
Not only that, but make it really easy to turn on these features so
that all mailing lists around the world can benefit :).
The problem is probably more generic; for instance, you might want to
send out CONFIRM's when people use excessive quoting, long line
lengths, etc. As the software gets smarter it could even assess the
email for Netiquette. But one step at I time, I think.
> But I'd like that we have *a* reply when we're asking to right people ;)
A helpdesk system for free software? Buahaha, it'll never happen.
(go on, make one to spite me!)
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