[tdf-moderators] Re: removing mailing list prefixes?

Hi Florian,

Le 2012-08-01 18:28, Florian Effenberger a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> today, a discussion started on the certification mailing list whether we
> want to get rid of those mailing list prefixes in the subject, like
> [libreoffice-announce], [libreoffice-conference] or [tdf-discuss].
>
> This would be helpful in several ways, like DKIM and other e-mail
> signing tools don't break, plus it looks much better in the mail overview.
>
> However, this depends on how people filter their e-mail. Filtering on
> the subject line is a *real* bad idea, rather use the List-Post or
> List-Id header. However, some mail clients don't support that.
>
> So, my question is:
> Are there mailing lists where we could get rid of this prefix? What do
> people think?
>
> I would imagine that for the users list, removing the prefix is a bad
> idea, while for other lists, it could work pretty well.
>
> Thoughts?
> Florian

Perhaps we should be looking at it from another view point --> we can 
most likely assume that the majority of our users have some working 
knowledge, or, less knowledge of filtering emails. Users joining the 
more specialized mail lists may have a little more knowledge, but, in 
general, our users (IMO) have lower levels of knowledge of 
working/managing email filtering systems..

On the other hand, we can most likely assume that our devs and hardware 
managers have a higher working knowledge of managing email filtering and 
very good knowledge of running email clients; removing mailing list 
prefixes for this group will have very little impact as they can easily 
adapt.

As we are trying to enlist the help of more users (potentially 
"members") to help out with various tasks on the project, asking from 
our users to join at a higher entry level of knowledge of working their 
email clients may be asking too much. We should try to gain the help of 
our users by offering them easy points of entry into our project 
discussions.

I think it may be better to leave the prefixes in if the people who run 
our mailservers have the knowledge to run them, even if they demand a 
little more attention. This, rather than make the lives of users more 
complicated by removing the prefixes.

It all comes down to knowledge. If our IT members are knowledgeable 
enough to make the project work by making it easier for the user base to 
join in on our discussions, even if it means a little more work for the 
IT members, then we should keep the suffixes. There is no point in 
disenfranchising part of our precious user base if we can avoid it.

Keeping things simple for our user base helps with community building.

Cheers,

Marc


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