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Bug 98713

Summary:	improve default notice for message rejection
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Rafael Chaves <eclipse>
Component:	MailingLists	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Rafael Chaves

2005-06-07 12:03:33 EDT

Could the following text be added to the default notice for when a message is
rejected on eclipse-dev? Thanks.

Technical questions and discussions about using eclipse and eclipse-based tools,
and developing plug-in tools should be posted to the newsgroups:

http://eclipse.org/newsgroups/

Mailing lists at eclipse.org are intended for use by developers actually working
on or otherwise contributing to day-to-day development. The development mailing
lists are the way design and implementation issues are discussed and decisions
voted on by the committers.

Comment 1 Eclipse Webmaster

2005-06-08 14:11:32 EDT

the text below is really irrevelant, becuase most of the messages being sent to
this list from a non-member is more than likely SPAM, and possibly being sent
from a dummy or unmonitored email address.

Comment 2 Rafael Chaves

2005-06-08 14:16:29 EDT

I don't get it. I am talking about the messages coming from real people that are
rejected (because they should have been posted to the newsgroups instead).

But you marked this as fixed. Does that mean you changed the default message?

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2005-06-08 14:48:11 EDT

You're message has been added into mailman. It should take effect the next time
mailman is restarted. Thanks.

Comment 4 Rafael Chaves

2005-06-08 14:50:26 EDT

Thanks.

Comment 5 Rafael Chaves

2005-08-02 10:00:23 EDT

Just to confirm... hasn't it been reset since then?

Comment 6 Eclipse Webmaster

2005-08-03 14:14:39 EDT

The reject message was changed to what's written in Comment 0.  However, several
users e-mailed me because they didn't know they needed to subscribe to the list
before posting a perfectly legitimate e-mail.

I have since changed the rejection notice to this:

You must subscribe to mailing lists before you can post to them, using
the same e-mail address as the one you're using to send e-mail.
However, technical questions and discussions about using eclipse and
eclipse-based tools, and developing plug-in tools should be posted to
the newsgroups at http://eclipse.org/newsgroups/ . 

Mailing list suffixed with -dev, such as eclipse-dev and platform-dev
are intended for use by developers actually working on or otherwise
contributing to day-to-day development. The development mailing lists
are the way design and implementation issues are discussed and
decisions voted on by the committers.

If you are a member of this list and you think that your messages are
being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at...