[kanchilug] Mailing List Guidelines: Reminder

From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@xxxxxxxxx>
To: kanchilug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 19:22:23 +0530
Friends,

We did not have any mailing list guidelines so far,
as the mail traffic was less so far.

Nowadays, we communicate a lot via this mailing list.
So, It is necessary to follow some guidelines.

Here are the Guidelines.

Please read this and follow in all your emails.
This is applicable for all the open source mailing lists.

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Mailing List Guidelines: Monthly reminder:

1. Use a proper subject line.

2. Do not troll in the mailing list

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

3. Use [OT] for off-topic, non-technical discussions.
But, don't misuse this to start flame wars or to troll
in the mailing list.

4. Do not top-post:

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting

Example of a top-post:

Because it messes up the order in which
people normally read text.
> > Why is top-posting
> > such a bad thing?
Top-posting.
> > What is the most
> > annoying thing in e-mail?


Use interleaved, trimmed posting



 Hi,
 --- Foo Bar<foo.bar at gmail.com> wrote:
 > could design good
 > application forms using tex

 Sure.

 > CTAN doesn't seem to give me anything.

 Check this example (Observing Time Application Form):
 http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/observing/applicationForms.php

 --
 Bar Foo


5. Do not over-quote:

Example of an over-quote:

>>> On Friday you said
>>> blah blah blah
>> On Saturday you said
>> foo foo foo
> On Sunday you said
> foobar

6. Do not post HTML messages

7. Do not recycle messages

8. Do not send attachments

9. Do not attach obnoxious, nonsensical legal
disclaimers. If your company uses disclaimers, don't
use your company ID for the mailing list.

10. Do not reply to a digest. (If you are in digest
mode and want to reply to a post use ILUGC Gmane blog
interface.

Link:
http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.ilugc

11. Search for answers for your questions/problems in
google.com or any other search engine before posting
your query to the mailing list.

If any of the above are not clear to you, Please read
the detailed list guidelines:

Link:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

12. Do not post messages in all capital letters. Mails
in CAPS is considered rude and is similar to shouting
during a conversation.

13. Following these guidelines could be helpful
http://people.debian.org/~enrico/dcg/

14. Don't send season's greetings or birthday or social networking site
 invites to the group. Its not mailing list etiquette.

We must use the above guidelines to maintain better
readability, proper archives, efficient bandwidth
usage, etc.


Reference:
http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf


--
Regards,
T.Shrinivasan


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