[sword-devel] forwarding sword-support to sword-devel

[Chris Little]

This (Peter's) idea sounds really good to me. Changing the footer or 
sending out reminder emails wouldn't have any effect, I would guess. I 
think people just ignore those as noise. (I do.)

--Chris


On 11/15/2010 12:11 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> How about a filter in the mailserver which does not allow and bounce all
> emails to sword-devel with "sword-support" in the subject line.
>
> There is little legitimate reason for having this in the subject line
> and it would stop all forwarding dead (and I have done this too).
>
> The reason I did it was accidental as I did not pay enough attention
> when wrote the address by hand and wanted to exclude the initial poster.
> The autofiller in my mail client did the rest. I am sure many others
> will have similarly been careless rather than malicious.
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 15/11/10 19:46, DJ Ortley wrote:
>> How about changing the footer on the mailing list e-mails to reflect this?
>>
>> -DJ
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Jonathan Marsden<jmarsden at fastmail.fm
>> <mailto:jmarsden at fastmail.fm>>  wrote:
>>
>>      Chris,
>>
>>      On 11/15/2010 6:15 AM, Chris Little wrote:
>>
>>      >  Barry, please do not cross-post sword-support mail to sword-devel,
>>      >  especially not with users' personal information left intact. It
>>      >  seems like every 6 months or so I have to repeat this request. ...
>>
>>      >  So everyone on the support list, please, just don't ever forward
>>      >  mail from that list.
>>
>>      It might be worth being proactive, rather that reactive, about this,
>>      since you indicate that it seems to be more than a one-time issue.
>>
>>      Perhaps you/we could set up a monthly sword-support FAQ email, that is
>>      sent from a cron job on the first of the month to sword-support, and
>>      which includes this kind of information?  We could also check that the
>>      welcome email people get when they subscribe to sword-support clearly
>>      includes this info.
>>
>>      Jonathan
>>
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