Re: List Rules

From: James McKenzie (jjmckenzie51_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 02/26/05

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    Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:31:11 -0700
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    Hacksaw wrote:
    > This is actually a misinterpretation of a much better idea: When replying to a
    > message, quote the relevant passage you are replying to as concisely as
    > possible, preceeding each line with a non alphanumeric, preferably '>', then
    > add your reply in plain text.
    >
    > Repeat as necessary.
    >
    Good suggestion. Thank you for it.
    >
    >>3. Search the list archives before posting a question.
    >
    >
    > This leads me to another important suggestion. To aid in the searching, please
    > write subject lines that concisely tag the message. For instance, if you are
    > having a problem getting past the partitioning phase of an install of FC3,
    > don't set the subject to "Install Fails", set it to "Can't get past
    > partitioning on FC3".
    >
    Again, I will add this.
    >
    >
    > Two other suggestions come to mind here. First is that you probably shouldn't
    > call it "List Rules". It might be better to call it "Suggestions to ensure the
    > widest readership of your question or problem." This gets the goal across
    > nicely.
    The eventual goal is to send these to Red Hat management to be adopted
    and send to 'new' list members and to be made available on the Fedora
    web site. This is why I posted them to the list for refinement by the
    members of the list.
    >
    > The second is that ad hominem attacks probably won't result in positive
    > action. In fact, in the old days, a million years ago in Internet time, we
    > called those sorts of posts "Trolls".
    This is the number one reason that we need 'guidelines' on acceptable
    conduct. One of those guidelines is to leave moderation of the list to
    the moderators. I've seen many messages about 'rule' infractions, but
    no published rules to back them up. 

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