Eli Wapniarski wrote: > Mind you... Just a thought... If others have some similar set up, where bogus > email addresses are discarded, they might not even be aware that they aren't > getting any email from an active mailing list. agreed. but this is primarily due to 'newbie ignorance', or just plain lacking. if you do not see your post, something is wrong. plus, why post with a bogus address? those who do are usually ones who do not know how or understand how to set up anti spam filters and are usually msbsos users. mozilla 'support-firefox' and 'support-thunderbird' are prime examples of this. most of them also have no concern for subscribers using dial up connections as they seldom trim dead history. if one subscribes to a tech support list and then sees no activity, something has to be wrong. if they do not have enough awareness to realize that something is very wrong. then they really have a problem for which they need more help than a 'tsl' can not provide. > As such they wouldn't be getting anything and not be looking into it. this would be more of a problem of lacking in mental awareness. as in 'why did they join in first place?'. surely they should have some clue of tsl, or else why did they join. if there is no activity, there is little need for tsl. so lack of activity should tell them that they have a problem in receiving post. > And they, consequently not participate. Especially since they might try to > post and not get any reply. if they post, see their post and receive no reply, it could mean that post was so far out that their is no way to reply and they should repost with a new description or at least post and ask why no reply. > Just a thought. and thoughts show you are at least thinking. :) later. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look at* it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ **** -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090124/d7ad7b91/attachment.bin
