[clue-admin] list etiquette

[David Anselmi]

Jeff Cann wrote:
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> Admins,
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> I believe that we need to less critical of people who are not following our 
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> So, to make things more productive, I would like a single volunteer to :

If we're going to put out a policy, how about "no netiquette posts 
allowed"?  That said, reviewing the list pages and making sure the list 
purposes are clearly stated might be useful.

I remember thinking, and may have even said years ago, that we needed 
this done.  I would like very much to say "please don't top post" and 
link to our list rules.  But at the time I was the only one who seemed 
to care about that stuff.

Jeff et. al. thought that being inclusive and not petty was more 
important.  I think that was a wise position.

As a result I've avoided correcting people on this list.  While everyone 
else was doing that we managed to avoid useless threads like the recent 
"Top down".

I still look down on top-posters and when Collins started correcting 
people I thought "right on".  Obviously though, without a standard that 
the admins enforce we get into "my opinion is better than yours" and 
"who made you the police".

Jeff has gone out of his way to make this a friendly list that welcomes 
newcomers.  It ain't linux-elitists, it ain't the kernel list.

It turns out that I can live with top-posters.  I can even live with 
people who reply using Groupwise (ugh).  I don't think that making this 
list a place to educate list newbies adds much value.

I have to say though that Mr. Havlicek seems unnecessarily rude.  I hope 
he goes away soon.  Or perhaps he's just trolling (big gotcha for him if 
he is).

Dave