suggestion : "ubuntu-testers" - list

[Matthew S-H]

On Mar 3, 2005, at 7:26 PM, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

>> I think it should be a recomendation (no easy way to enforce)
>
> There is a very easy way to enforce. All existing users will use 
> filters
> to reject anything that has no [Warty ) or [Hoary/testing] or [General]
> tag in the subject line. So when  a new user doesn't comply to this
> rule, he won't get any answer. By looking at all the other mail, which
> do have tags, he will quickly understand what he must do in order to be
> heard....
>
> Of course they would. When you subscribe, you get a private e-mail with
> a link/procedure to active your account, along with a few indications 
> on
> how the list works (how to unsubscribe, how to edit your membership
> optins etc). Let's just use this e-mail to instruct people on how to 
> use
> the list properly.
> If they don't want to obey, they will soon have to anyway, if thet want
> anyone to answer them
>

Good idea.


> It will make the subject line a little longer and truncate the end of
> the subject a bit depending how wide the column is, but that's not the
> end of the world, well I don't think ! ;o)
>
>

I see what you're saying.  One possible fix for this would be to have 
the prefixes be "[W]","[H]", and "[G]".  This wouldn't add too much to 
the subject line.  The only catch is that it wouldn't be too obvious to 
new users.  But that might change.  The biggest catch I see with that 
is that a lot of "newbs" (no offense) are going to be new to the 
'world' of mailing lists and might not know what the prefix is.  Some 
of them (my dear mom included) wouldn't even know where the subject 
line is.....  And we need these "newbs" if Ubuntu is ever to become a 
mainstream OS (wishful thinking :) ).

What about having 3 "meta" e-mail lists.  Like 
"warty-users at lists.ubuntu.com", "hoary-users at lists.ubuntu.com", and 
"ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com" (this one).  You would only be able to 
subscribe to ubuntu-users though.  E-mail sent to warty-users or 
hoary-users would be run through a script that would automatically add 
the prefix and re-route it to ubuntu-users.

I'm not sure how doable that would be, but I think it might help.  The 
original idea should work too though.  I'm just tossing this idea out 
to see what you guys'/gals' think.


~Matt

>
> Vince, likes well organized things
>
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