Taming the mailing lists?

[Charles Curley]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 03:55:54PM -0400, ne... wrote:
> On Apr 28, 2004 at 13:00, Elliot Lee in a soothing rage wrote:
> 
> >If you feel that the Fedora mailing lists are becoming a little
> >unmanageable or are not as valuable as they could be, would you take the
> >time to e-mail me with your thoughts on the problem? (private e-mail is
> >fine) If you think that there's no problem at all, hearing that opinion 
> >would be useful too!
> I think it would be good if there was a list of rules detailing what 
> was expected of subscribers in term of how to post, posting to the
> relevant list etc. As we all know threads get long, so trimming
> .sigs and what is not relevant to the conversation helps.
> Inline posting - this is a definite yes. Top posting should be a
> no-no and explicitely spelt out. Thread hijacking should go the
> way of the dodo bird too. 

E.g. http://www.charlescurley.com/netiquette.html

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