Re: [libreoffice-users] UNSUBSCRIBE

On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 19:13 +0000, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Sorry for double-posting yet again :(
>
> This list does have 2 very distinctly different purposes 
> 1.  as user-support 
> 2.  as a discussion list
> Clearly people are having trouble with this list when they need it for 1 but many of us enjoy it 
> for 2.  

Or you could stop using this list as a general discussion board and use
it for what it was intended, user support.

There is a discussion list for the other - so please try to use the
correct list for the intended purpose - that would go a long, long way
also.

//drew

> Perhaps an official user-support forum at Launchpad could send emails to the discussion list?
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
> --- On Fri, 20/1/12, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote:
>
> From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] UNSUBSCRIBE
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Friday, 20 January, 2012, 18:34
>
> On 2012-01-20 8:32 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > Forums usually allow the hard-core mailing-list fans to subscribe to
> > one, many or all threads in the forum so the net result would be
> > about the same for you.  It would just reduce the amount of complex
> > stuff that less sophisticated users would have to do in order to see
> > answers to the one-and-only thread they are interested in.
>
> Except that you then have to log into  the forum to respond...
>
> Forums suck for active discussion like this for people who are active in many different venues... 
> they are great however for a Help' type of repository.
>
> That said, there is no reason we couldn't have both... and one thing I'd like to see are official 
> forums that are populated with answers to FAQs asked on the lists that people can be referred to 
> if all they want is an answer to one specific question...
>
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