At 11:52 AM -0700 6/11/07, Les wrote:
>Hi, everyone,
> I remember the welcome message from older bulletin boards, which gave
>you some info about the board and its uses/customs/guidelines. It seems
>to me that we could do new posters a favor by sending them such a
>message when they join the list. The subject line should be something
>like Getting the most out of fedora-list.
>
> Text something like:
>
> Basics:
> This list is meant to help you get the best from your fedora
>installation. People here will help you find and fix problems, guide
>you to best practices, and generally share their knowledge with you. In
>return you should contribute what you learn. As you become comfortable
>with fedora, it is desirable to add to the information used to improve
>and maintain the system through bugzilla (this should be a link to a
>document describing how to setup bugzilla and how to report bugs).
...
>What do you all think?
Basics should also include:
No top posting -- reply at the end or interspersed; trim parts
you aren't replying to.
No HTML emails -- post and reply in plain text.
Perhaps it could be made shorter by being more brief about smart questios
and providing a link to <http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html> .
At some point this will probably have to be sent to the list maintainer, if
there is any reasonable agreement that it is a good idea. It might need to
visit fedora-devel-list as well (or some other list?).
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