On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:50:16PM -0700, ben wrote: > On Thursday 11 April 2002 05:41 pm, Nathan E Norman wrote: > [snip] > > > > Coming up with a list of "rules" is a pointless exercise; you do not > > possess the ability to enforce your rules, unless you are the > > listmaster. > > > > I do support people who desire that "netiquette" be observed on this > > list, and that includes such things as good old-fashioned plain-text > > emails, no spam, proper quoting, honor reply-to and m-f-t headers (or > > simply respond only to the list is unsure), etc. > > > > No offense intended to participants in the thread; let's get back to > > real debian advocacy (the software), and dispense with faux advocacy > > (railing against the evils of what happens when the masses meet > > email). > > > > the point of the thread is to develop an introductory set of rules to be > available to new subscribers as part of their confirmation message, in the > hope of limiting some of the llitter that ends up on the list. when we've > arrived at something worth using, that will be sent to the listmaster with a > request that it be incorporated in the subscriber confirmation message. the > effort is 24 hours old at this point. how about giving it a chance before you > urge abandoning it? A quote from your previous post: > 4. reply to the list only, unless requested to cc: I'd take this effort more seriously if participants (like you) honored my Mail-Followup-To: header which explicitly requests a response to the list, and only to the list. Until I see people practicing what they preach, nay demand from the rest of the community, I reserve my skepticism. -- Nathan Norman - Micromuse Ltd. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com Gil-galad was an Elven-king. | The Fellowship Of him the harpers sadly sing: | of the last whose realm was fair and free | the Ring between the Mountains and the Sea. | J.R.R. Tolkien
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