18 Oct
2005
18 Oct
'05
19:01
Anders Johansson <ajohansson@novell.com> [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