Mailing-list Gudelines. Yes or No

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 10:47 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
> Maybe once and for all decide does the list need guidelines, Yes or
> No?

Yes.

But Guidelines are just that, for guidance. They aren't laws. One hopes
that people show some community spirit and attempt to follow community
norms, e.g. many people have mixed feelings about top-posting because
it's used in other contexts. I get it, but this community prefers not to
have top-posting so  I would hope people would either go along with it
as a courtesy to others or give some rational argument for changing the
Guidelines. What I wouldn't expect is for people to simply ignore it.

poc