Off-List Postings [Was spreadsheet program]

[Dave <da...@gmail.com>]

Richard,

Carol is not subscribed to the list. As one of the list moderators, I
have redirected a copy of your message to her.

However, if Brian had notified or cc'd the list, you would not have
needed to ask the question. Since the earliest days of the OOo users
mailing list Brian has operated his own private off-list support. While
Brian's advice is almost always accurate, it often means that other list
subscribers are left in the dark and can (I have) waste time and effort
providing an on-list answer that has already been given off-list. Plus
this somewhat defeats the purpose of a community support list. That is
NOT to say that off-list postings should be banned, or restricted in any
way, but as a matter of simple courtesy the other 500+ list subscribers
should be "kept in the loop".

Since Brian and I have debated this matter for over a decade, I very
much doubt that it is about to change now.

Regards
Dave

-------- Original Message  --------
From: Richard Detwiler <RL...@aol.com>
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 07:57:38 -0400

> Carol,
> 
> You have me and I suspect others curious as to what your problem was!
> Your initial note never indicated what the serious problems you had
> were. One advantage of an e-mail group such as this is that others can
> learn from one person's problems and what the solutions are.
> 
> 
> On 6/14/2016 6:14 AM, Carol wrote:
>> Not to worry, Brian Barker helped me solve the problem. Very simple
>> once he checked it out.
>> No, the question wasn't obsolete as I downloaded Open Office again so
>> I could show him what the problem was and it worked, but thanks anyway.
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Martin Groenescheij
>> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2016 7:39 PM
>> To: users@openoffice.apache.org
>> Cc: Martin@Groenescheij.COM
>> Subject: Re: spreadsheet program
>>
>>
>>
>> On 13/06/16 10:01 PM, Carol wrote:
>>> I had used your Open Office word processing program for a long time,
>>> but your spreadsheet program had serious problems.
>> And what are the serious problems?
>>> I believe I wrote to you about it but never got an answer.
>> You believe you wrote, but I can't find your question in the archive. We
>> can't answer questions we didn't received
>>> And then for whatever reason, the word processing program put
>>> everything into a spreadsheet,
>> Word processing programs don't put anything into a spreadsheet, but
>> users sometimes do.
>>>   so with no response from you,
>> We don't answer questions that were not received
>>> I just removed the whole thing.
>> So, problem solved
>>> I do have an older version of Microsoft Works, but I get a not enough
>>> space sometimes when I want to use the word processing program.
>> Enough space for what?
>>> It could be Windows 10, I don’t remember when I first started having
>>> problems with it. anyway, I was happy with your software originally,
>>> but had too many problems later on.
>> If you can't remember it could be either a long time ago or, but then
>> there was no Windows 10, or you have a short memory.
>>> Is it compatible with Windows 10?
>> You removed it already, so this is an obsolete question.




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