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

Le 2012-08-06 10:54, Florian Effenberger a écrit :
> Hi Marc,
>
> Marc Paré wrote on 2012-08-06 08:12:
> > 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..
>
> thanks for that proposal, indeed! This is something we indeed could do,
> and I'd like to enhance the idea bit:
>
> How about writing to all the mailing lists (global/English ones for a
> start), sending a short link to a poll, where all list participants
> could cast their vote?
>
> I can imagine that on developer, infrastructure and other lists the
> suffix could be omitted, while on users and discuss lists it is more
> likely needed. In order to find that out, we could simply ask the
> subscribers.
>
> Do you think that makes sense, or is it too much spamming?
>
> Florian

Quite frankly, I think that on the users and discussion lists, people 
will have very little idea of what such a poll would be about and will 
only realize its impact after these are removed. IMO, we should keep 
suffixes where entry-level users and the such are in majority, and, 
remove prefixes where devs and dev-level users are in majority -- this 
last group of users will have an easier time of "re-tooling" their filters.

I would rather see TDF/LibreOffice make it as easy and the 
least-troublesome of an experience for end-users to join in on the 
community project. This, in some way, will establish a pattern whereby 
users who later join as members and later offer their particular skills 
to the project will join more specialized lists where the prefixes are 
not available.

Cheers,

Marc



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