On Tuesday 22 Oct 2002 10:23 pm, MJ Ray wrote:
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.
To be fair the subject does say "draft rules" even if you did mention guidelines.
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I know a lot of these are "obvious" to you or me, but having them posted somewhere can't hurt, can it?
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These guidelines may be obvious to the more seasoned subscriber but I should imagine there are quite a few very newbie people out there. Netiquette has to be learned it is a social skill in what can be an alien environment to new users so I'm very willing to cut some slack and politely guide people in the right direction. I would hate to think that we lost even a single member because of a rebuff due to not adhering to the guidelines. So I'm in total agreement a polite set of guidelines on the website linked from the list sign up page would no bad thing.
Cheers, BJ