On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 03:18:27PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 06:55:59AM EST, Camaleón wrote: > > On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:50:47 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 02:33:32PM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > >> Finding technical solutions to a social problems? Good luck! > > > > > > Of course not, first we use the techical to determine who's who and > > > who's doing what and then we shoot them, at dawn, preferably... > > > > > > More to the point, couldn't the list managing program identify those > > > messages and email back the perps that it is very very naughty and they > > > need to stop doing it immediately, or else be spanked or even forcibly > > > unsubscribed from the list? > > > > I agree with Andrei. > > > > The best approach for such situation is just getting the user to be aware > > of what is he/she doing. They usually do know nothing about e-mail > > threads and mailing list format so telling them about the benefits of > > having their MUA configured in the right way is usually just enough. > > > > In a corporate environment, "threading" is not much used with normal > > correspondece and e-mail clients are configured to use html format, no > > quoting in replies and to posting, just opposite the way it should be > > done for mailing lists. > > > > Educating them it always better than "shooting" them ;-) > > What I had in mind was more along the lines of a short description of > the problem in 'neutral but no uncertain terms' and why it causes grief > in a threaded context such as mailing lists, something fairly 'official' > posted somewhere online that we could refer them to. > > For all I know, such resource already exists, and if not I'm surprised > it doesn't. > > And though it's probably not feasible, having the list's managing > software inform posters automatically might even be more productive. > > Since I was not too optimistic as to that all that happening any time > soon, I recommended spanking, banning.. did I actually say shooting.. > > Oh, well.. > > HNY, anyways.. >
It would seem simple if the priority were high enough. The welcome message for new subscribers could say something. There must be a crunch for space on that but, priorities. There could be an orientation section with a provocative title. My smartlist had that and a monthly FAQ. I believe it was a feature of the program. But a simple cron job could post a FAQ. If there is no monthly FAQ, maybe there should be a thread about what to put in one. :) My smartlist was also able to strip html without to much problem. That could have likely been modified to be a trigger for return notices to turn such features off. -- Kind Regards, Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
