On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:23:58PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
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.
Sorry about that but the original post you quoted used the word "rules" once you have these (or guidelines) you will get lots of people becoming the police and this will make things far worse than better (imho). Anyhow I don't see many of these boring arguments on the Alug list at the moment so there is no need to worry about them.
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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.
I still think covering alternative unix OS and others (plan 9 etc.) at the same time on the main list is worthwhile. Anyhow this is covered in the FAQ atm. Is it worth changing? I think we want to be able to expand our horizons to more than just GNU/Linux. Anyhow what about Mac OS X? parts of it are GNU....
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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.
yes encourage, but sometimes people don't have the power to get things changed =( anyhow the FAQ already says about 4 line sigs etc.
I know a lot of these are "obvious" to you or me, but having them posted somewhere can't hurt, can it?
Well yes there are guides on general netiquette, maybe we should link to one of them instead... and just leave other things as they are, we already have a nice set of guidelines, the only controversial one is the advertising policy as laid out in the FAQ.
Adam