Can you make the autoresponder send back an appropriate response to anything that doesn't have a standard [xxx] in the header while still letting it through, at least for a trial period.? Waddabout [ADMIN]??? I assumed AD was ADvertisement. What about [RELIGION] :-) :-) :-) :-) ? Russell McMahon _____________________________ From other worlds - www.easttimor.com www.sudan.com What can one man* do? Help the hungry at no cost to yourself! at http://www.thehungersite.com/ (* - or woman, child or internet enabled intelligent entity :-)) -----Original Message----- From: James Newton To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Date: Friday, 26 May 2000 07:53 Subject: Re: [ADMIN] [READ THIS] Last try for topics >Your point is well taken, but if people are "allowed" to post with out a >topic there are two problems.... > >1) newbies, etc.. who forget that they need to assign a topic will not get >thier post seen by the PIC only people. They will go away thinking no-one >wanted or could help them. I plan to start an autoresponder that reminds >people to TAG subject lines when they post without one. > >2) if a bunch of people are posting interesting things to the non-topic >area, people who want to hear that will start wondering what they are >missing and turn it back on. "Oh, we just answered that on the non-topic >channel, don't you subscribe to that?" > >But if the way we are talking about now, doesn't work out, I'll be happy to >try something else. > >--- >James Newton (PICList Admin #3) >mailto:jamesnewton@piclist.com 1-619-652-0593 >PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com or .org > >-----Original Message----- >From: rleggitt@concentric.net [mailto:rleggitt@concentric.net] >Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 12:23 >To: James Newton >Subject: Re: [ADMIN] [READ THIS] Last try for topics >Importance: Low > > >Hi James, how about if you turn it around: have only two catagories, >[PIC], and everything else. By default, everyone gets both catagories. >Anyone who only wants PIC disables the default catagory. > >Now anyone who posts a PIC question without the "[PIC]:" runs the risk of >it not being seen by the person who can answer the question, but see, >that's THEIR problem not yours. > > >On Thu, 25 May 2000, James Newton wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:13:54 -0700 >> From: James Newton >> Reply-To: jamesnewton@geocities.com >> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU >> Subject: [ADMIN] [READ THIS] Last try for topics >> >> Ok, last time, then we just dump it... >> >> SUBJECT LINES IN POSTS TO THE PICLIST NEED TO START WITH ONE OF: >> >> [PIC]: >> [EE]: >> [OT]: >> [AD]: >> >> If you don't use one of these, other people will not see your posts. >People >> who are interested only in the PIC itself listen to [PIC], people who are >> also interested in general engineering issues also listen to [EE] and >people >> who are also interested in anything PICListers have to say also listen to >> [OT]. People who are interested in buying or selling also listen to [AD]. >> Please pick one that matches the subject of your post and type it at the >> start of the subject line (don't forget the colon) and then continue. >> >> The point of this is that it will reduce the likelihood of people posting >> comments about the space program with [PIC]: at the start of the subject >> line. Then you can tell the list server to only send [PIC]: topics. Also >> reduces the workload for the VOLUNTEER, UNPAID, ADMINS (HINT, HINT) > >> >> --- >> James Newton (PICList Admin #3) >> mailto:jamesnewton@piclist.com 1-619-652-0593 >> PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com or .org >> >