MJ Ray wrote:
Would people consider these guidelines worth adopting for the ALUG lists? If so, we'll add them to the web site.
Do we really need "rules"?
No. That's why *I* wrote "guidelines" not "rules". Please do not change my words. The idea is to add this somewhere because it costs us little effort and avoids the long boring "please don't do that"/"but no-one said I couldn't"/"but you shouldn't"/"OK, now I know, but why don't you tell people?" arguments that periodically break out.
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not agree, I think Unix and Unix/Linux like alternative OS should be included, also this rule would mean GNU/Hurd would be rated off topic,
I think AIX, Solaris et al can go buy their own mailing lists, but general GNU discussion would be allowed by that. And there's always social.
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*should be* yes, but if you can't do anything about it i.e. boilerplate from your employers then there is not to much we can do about it, just hope to embrace and educate.
I disagree on this. Many of those huge meaningless pseudo-legalese footers really are horrendously long and the list has enough subscribers that it's a lot of rubbish if it goes to everyone. If we can "encourage" people to get their mail systems fixed, that's a good thing.
I know a lot of these are "obvious" to you or me, but having them posted somewhere can't hurt, can it?