On Thursday 10 August 2006 06:20, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
Sure we need a protocol. Someone ought to write one and post it wherever people sign up for this list. Then it would be easy to refer a hijacker or otherwise uneducated beginner to that well written and politely encouraging post.
The basic FAQ is available by emailing suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com, or, in summary, at http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/faq/maillist.html. An unofficial etiquette FAQ, more relevant to this point, used to be available at http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q5043905/Suse-Linux-Etiquette-e.html, but appears to have been taken off line (susefaq owner take note) :( It may be available from www.archive.org, but that is down for me at the moment too! In general, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/mailing-list-faq/etiquet... is a good start. I found these by googling with the term "suse-linux-e faq" or "suse-linux-e etiquette faq" (without the "s). Perhaps the list welcome email should mention these links (it may already - I don't remember).