* Steven T. Hatton
These strong-armed tactics of posting excerpts from the newly
^^^^^^^
established guidelines are not very productive in accomplishing the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ objective of persuading people to discuss this topic elsewhere.
You may be new but the "guidelines" are not. Excerpt from
suse-linux-e-help dated 14 Jan 2002 03:35:25 -0000:
----Some Frequently Asked, Frequently Asked Questions
Q1. What is the suse-linux-e mailing list?
A1. SLE is a high volume, unmoderated mailing list for general
discussions about SuSE Linux in English. In other words,
it's a wild, largely unsupervised, collection of Linux
users that will flood your mailbox with 100-200 messages
per day. It's also a great place to get help with your
SuSE Linux system or have discussions about Linux.
Q2. What is appropriate content for the list?
A2. Questions about configuration, maintenance, and implementation
of SuSE Linux. The emphasis is on the x86 platform since we have
separate lists for AXP, Sparc, IA64, and PPC.
Q3. What is not appropriate content for the list?
A3. Commercial postings of any kind, job postings, non-computer/Linux
related material. Because of the large size of the list (1500
subscribers and ~200 messages per day), flame wars and off-topic
posting can sometimes result in you being unsubscribed and, in
extreme cases, banned from the list. Also, please unsubscribe
now if you planning on posting advocacy-type things. There are
lots of advocacy newsgroups such as comp.os.linux.advocacy.
And/but this was before suse-ot existed (announced 18 June 2003 by
Christopher Mahwood