[lug] Ideas to Improve This List

[Facey, Aaron]

How about a guideline that suggests subscribers reply to the originator of
the new topic/ issue instead of replying to the entire mail list. Even
though many of us filter email, I'd prefer to not receive tons of messages
on some issue unrelated to Linux that fills up my trash - like politics..
Forum or mail list?

***my 2 cents***

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Hutnick [mailto:peter-lists at hutnick.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 4:26 PM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Cc: diederic at boulder.net
Subject: [lug] Ideas to Improve This List


Andrew Diederich said:
> I'd even tell you then why we need a
> 100% gold standard instead of a fractional reserve banking system, but
> I'm afraid you'd gouge out your own eyes from boredom, or perhaps mine
> from frustration.  But that topic is not appropriate for this list.

It would be nice to have posting guidelines on the LUG page.  Perhaps with
a link included in the subscribe email.  And /maybe/ in the stuff appended
by the MLM.

A list of things to start discussion:

- No HTML email.
- No attachments (Maybe no bins and no attachments over 5k or something.
(for reference my XF86Config is 3k, but not very elaborate.))
- Use a subject
- Be on topic (meaning be at least one of the following):
   - Explicitly Linux related
   - Relevant to a component of a non-exotic Linux system (i.e. a UNIX
shell, a scripting or programming language commonly used on Linux
systems (perl, C, NOT VB), a piece of sw commonly used on Linux systems
(Apache, MySQL, NOT IE).

Also, why not run a free-for-all list?  I'd love to hear Andrew's views on
the monetary system, but I never make it to meetings.  It'd be nice to be
able to extend the social interaction that has grown up between us around
Linux -- beyond Linux.

I'd happily take on the admin duties of such a list.  (For the record I
was the primary admin of /all/ of the SquirrelMail lists for 18+ months.)

-Peter


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