Re: [tdf-discuss] Two moderator questions

 On 10/16/2010 11:56 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote:
> Hi Barbara,
>
> Barbara Duprey wrote on 2010-10-16 01.15:
>
> > I think if there were a Reply capability in the LibO archive, we could
> > accomplish most of the task even without automatic support. Either those
> > of us who already pay attention to whether the OP is subscribed, or a
> > more formal team that processes mail as notified by the moderator* when
> > passing on the messages, could direct the unsub to the archive of their
> > question and tell him how to participate in that thread. In that case,
> > there would be no need for anybody to cc the OP. If it isn't done by an
> > identified team, so that we could be sure somebody had done it, there'd
> > need to be a message to the list that the user has been given that
> > information. One technical question there is whether the archive
> > threading is broken by a subject change -- that was really the main
> > reason I gave up on use of the "thread" command.
>
> well, I'm not too much of a friend of breaking mailing list rules. :-) There are forums and 
> mailing lists. The latter require subscription, for good reason. For those not familiar with 
> lists, I see no real resources at the moment to implement something as you proposed. Everyone not 
> comfortable with lists should go for the forums, but that's just my personal opinion.

Are you saying that letting unsubscribed users post to a mailing list breaks rules? (That may be, 
but the issue has been discussed to exhaustion many times and still looks like Lilliput's 
big-endian/little-endian conflict!) If not, what rules are involved here? In any case the primary 
resources involved would be implementing a Reply capability in the LibO archive -- or settling on 
how to use an existing archive that already has that capability. Everything else could come later, 
as resources became available, though it would be good to have a game plan.

I talked elsewhere in the thread about why I don't see forums as the answer for the general public, 
I won't go into it again here.

> However, looking at what people demand, there's a huge variety, and we never ever will make 
> everyone happy, so...
>
> Florian

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