Inappropriate tone on this mailing list and requirement for governance

[Leonard Chatagnier]

NoOp, thank you so very much for your comments.  Maybe someone will listen to you. I apologize for the top post.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net


--- On Fri, 5/8/09, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Inappropriate tone on this mailing list and requirement for governance
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Friday, May 8, 2009, 10:07 PM
> On 05/06/2009 01:14 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > The tone used on this mailing list recently got a lot
> worse and totally
> > out of bounds with the requirement to respect the
> Ubuntu Code of Conduct
> > [1] for posts to this list.
> 
> Can this, and other related threads *please* be moved to
> Sounder or some
> other appropriate list/forum?
> 
> While I think the discussion worthwile, and it is relevant
> to the list
> overall, the traffic for these threads are seriously
> clogging up this list.
> 
> "Ubuntu user technical support,
> 	not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> 
> I view/reply to the list via nntp (gmane.org) so I can
> easily use 'k' to
> kill the thread(s) to ignore it/them. But I reckon that
> many others
> subscribe via email directly (some with slow metered
> dial-up
> connections) and can only imagine having to download this,
> and the other
> spawned threads regarding this subject.
> 
> Leave a thread subject/tag here pointing to the new
> location/list if
> you'd like, but *please* take it elsewhere & let
> this list get back to
> "Ubuntu user technical support".
> 
> http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists/etiquette
> <quote>
> Topic
> 
> Every mailing list deals with a specific subject matter (a
> topic). To
> keep mailing lists efficient, it is important to limit
> discussion to
> that topic so that the mailing list remains productive.
> When writing to
> mailing lists, it is important to bear in mind that your
> email may be
> sent to hundreds of people, who have signed up to the
> mailing list for a
> specific reason, or interest. Avoid subjects which are not
> relevant to
> the individual mailing list, and each time you write an
> email, consider
> its relevance for the mailing list in question. A good rule
> of thumb is
> that each email should contribute positively to a relevant
> discussion.
> 
> Specific examples:
> 
> * The ubuntu-users mailing list should be used for
> technical support.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> * The ubuntu-devel mailing list should be used for
> discussion of the
> development of Ubuntu.
> * The sounder mailing list should be used for discussion of
> subjects of
> general interest related to Ubuntu, linux, open source or
> software in
> general.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
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