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Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user



On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:59:15PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:43:45PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>  
> > Agreed. It may be a good idea to add to the mailing lists code of 
> > conduct a couple of extra lines:
> > 
> > A lot of questions asked on debian-user and debian-devel are asked 
> > regularly. Please consider searching using an Internet search engine
> > and reading the mailing list archives, Debian install notes and Debian 
> > reference manual before you post. If you can't find the answer, it is 
> > very helpful to others to show that you have attempted at least some of 
> > the above and your degree of success.
> > 
> > If you have a problem, please be prepared to give hardware/installed 
> > software and version information if requested to as part of the process 
> > of problem resolution.
> > 
> > Politeness and precision in use of language both help to narrow down 
> > issues and constrain extraneous discussions and flame wars. If tempted 
> > to start or continue contentions threads, please consider moving these
> > to private email or to debian-curiosa. Both debian-user and debian-devel
> > are high-volume lists read by people worldwide: consideration should be 
> > given to the fact that the views and attitudes of others may differ from 
> > your own.
> 
> 
> Seconded.

yup. me too.

A

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