On 06/15/2010 04:21 AM, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 13:57 -0500, Dale J. Chatham wrote: >> Had the original admonishment been made in private > > This also comes up from time to time. It is a good thing to > occasionally publicly say don't top list, so that more than one person > sees the information. > I prefer private communications - those that remind others believe it is a good thing - I believe they are very wrong. (1) I have seldom seen a positive flow coming from these random public information attempts. (2) Furthermore, the chances of genuine education via this are at best minimal - the signal/noise is of order 0. (3) An occasional post by the the list moderators (every 6 months to a year perhaps) with the subject clearly showing information about forum guidelines would be far better. So please keep it private - the bulk reading this list don't need reminders. My view ... -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines