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Re: [opensuse] Posting on openSUSE
- From: Philipp Thomas <philipp.thomas@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:01:32 +0200
- Message-id: <28hal1t2j8kuskbdmr3nd6mf89f2ftj01f@xxxxxxx>
Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxxxxx> [18 Oct 2005 17:31:36 +0200]:
>And I think that's a good thing on lists where you have new users,
>migrants from windows and others.
As you can guess, I disagree. See
http://www.boost.org/more/discussion_policy.htm why setting up rules up
front can be a good thing.
> Let's not scare them away.
My experience is that you won't at least not many. Kindly explain to
people why a certain way to handle things has benefits and most will
understand and conform (more or less :)
>because invariably these debates take up far more space and cause far
>more annoyance than the original "crime" did.
No, do the explanation once and then point to said mail in the archive.
Philipp
>And I think that's a good thing on lists where you have new users,
>migrants from windows and others.
As you can guess, I disagree. See
http://www.boost.org/more/discussion_policy.htm why setting up rules up
front can be a good thing.
> Let's not scare them away.
My experience is that you won't at least not many. Kindly explain to
people why a certain way to handle things has benefits and most will
understand and conform (more or less :)
>because invariably these debates take up far more space and cause far
>more annoyance than the original "crime" did.
No, do the explanation once and then point to said mail in the archive.
Philipp
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