get rid of OT

[Amedee Van Gasse]

                   On 1/10/2011 3:30, rikona wrote:            Hello
Amedee,  Friday, September 30, 2011, 8:47:51 AM, Amedee
wrote:                  On Thu, September 29, 2011
21:57, rikona wrote:
       Because right now, there is no good alternative
[maybe], and people don't redirect folks to someplace
else. If we do use moderation, which seems inevitable,
the moderation could shift traffic to an actual OT
list. Might be worth a try, and is MUCH better than
getting this quite useful list shut down.
                          That does not work. I have
tried it in the past, by manipulating the reply-to
header so that replies went to sounder, but that only
worked for people who replied to my email.
  What I was proposing is to change all the headers -
no reference to this list all refs to the OT list.
Ideally, this would be done by list members, not
moderators, but could be done by moderators too.
  When the email is already sent, it is too late to
change the     headers.
            To review a bit - when an OT email arrives, send TWO replies.
(1) says 'my reply will be on the OT list' and nothing else.
This email is sent to the ubuntu-users list and includes the
link to subscribe, to make it as easy as possible to go there.
         That's just as bad as spam, in my opinion.
            (2) is the actual reply and goes only to the OT list.
Which will be ignored. See also: bikeshed.
            ALL direct replies not to the OT list also get the same
treatment.  Perhaps a script guru could automate this a bit.
:-) That would help all of us a LOT.            I can't see
how you would gain access to >5K mailboxes when an OT     mail
has already been sent.