[OWW-SC] Changes to Feedback based upon "preliminary feedback"

[Bill F]

good suggestion. For now, the list server is saving them. we can refer to
them indirectly if need be.

B.


On Jan 20, 2008 12:36 PM, Julius B. Lucks <julius at younglucks.com> wrote:

> Hey Bill,
> Things seem to be working very well right now.  I would suggest that we
> eventually put these emails in some sort of queueing system so that we can
> manage which emails have been answered, and which users to send an email
> back to when a feature has changed that they were interested in - could
> eventum handle this?
>
> For now I would suggest that everyone reply to the whole feedback list so
> that we know what has been responded to.  I forgot to do this for the 1st
> one, but I will do for the second one.  I'll also write an SC blog post
> today.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Julius
>
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> On Jan 20, 2008, at 6:25 AM, Bill F wrote:
>
> Julius,
>
> We're using the MIT Mailman mailing list manager. I checked and there's no
> way to do this for email addresses in the text of messages. We can hide all
> addresses appearing in the headers of messages. I haven't tried it to see
> the effect but I don't know whether this simply hides the text or makes
> messages not eligible for replies. I'll look at it during the week.
>
> Thanks.
>
> B.
>
>
> On Jan 19, 2008 12:53 PM, Julius B. Lucks <julius at younglucks.com> wrote:
>
> > Great!
> >
> > Can we automatically remove the email addresses from tge text of the
> > archived messages? Just to be safe.
> >
> > Julius
> >
> > Please Reply to  <julius at younglucks.com>julius at younglucks.com
> >
> > On Jan 19, 2008, at 7:42 AM, "Bill F" < bill.altmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've made a few changes to the way feedback messages are handled to
> > tighten up the accepting and distribution of those messages.
> >
> > 1. The System:Contact special page is pretty cool. Feedback is collected
> > from the "feedback form" and delivered to an unpublished email address. We
> > can accept any feedback via the website and handle it as we need to.
> >
> > 2. I have created a new email alias on OpenWetWare.org to serve as the
> > destination for the feedback messages. This address is a random sequence and
> > will not generally be published.
> >
> > 3. I removed the "feedback" alias from OpenWetWare.org. All messages to
> > be routed to the Oww-Feedback.mit.edu mailing list will go to the new
> > mail address.
> >
> > 4. If people find and abuse the "  <oww-feedback at mit.edu>
> > oww-feedback at mit.edu" address badly, we'll fall back the same way by
> > renaming the list or replacing it with an app within OWW or via another web
> > application.
> >
> > 5. In any discussion of feedback within OWW, please refrain from writing
> > actual email addresses. This will keep the robots from finding and spamming
> > the list.
> >
> > 6. Anyone on the current OWW-Feedback list will notice no difference in
> > its behavior. The random email address I mentioned is part of the "feedback
> > application" and wasn't intended as an alternate way of submitting
> > feedback.
> >
> > 7. I am adding a new MediaWiki: system message,
> > "MediaWiki:FeedbackHeaderContent". The contents of this message will be
> > displayed on the form. I'll let people know when it's available.
> >
> > Let's see how this works. We can use it for other processes which
> > involve taking input from non-OWW members in a controlled manner as they
> > emerge.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
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