[libreoffice-users] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

On 9/9/11 9:19 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
> On 2011-09-09, Ken Springer wrote:
>
> > On 9/9/11 6:21 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
> > > Well, anyway, when someone fails to read the .sig, or follow some other
> > > rule, other people just point them what they missed, and everyone moves
> > > on. It's not a big deal.
> >
> > When it happens occasionally or less, you're right.  But, if too many
> > people don't follow the rules, for anything, then it becomes a big
> > deal.
>
> I guess some people who don't know the rules and aren't used to mailing
> lists (which includes looking for guidelines before posting) are people
> who would rather subscribe through a web interface.
>
> An idea would be, while keeping the usual mailing list stuff (the
> ability to subscribe by sending an email to a specified address and so
> on), having a web subscription interface that would drive the user
> through two or three slides concisely explaining some important rules,
> and how to unsubscribe.
>
> Of course /then/ some people would skip the slides...

I've often thought of something similar, i.e. when a use registers/signs 
up, that use automatically gets a document sent to the user's registered 
email address.  And then have the user acknowledge the user has received 
and understands the posting rules, netiquette, etc..  Something similar 
to having to agree to a EULA when installing software.  When the user 
gets his/her post pulled for not following they guidelines (I'm assuming 
continuing errors in posting, not the occasional error where the user 
may have had a simple brain lapse :-) ) they can't claim they didn't know.

And... You could create said document in LO!  ::grin::  But sending the 
user a PDF would be better.  :-)


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