RFC, submission: ubuntu technical moderated list

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:04:07 +0800
Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:

[...]
> 
> What I find most amusing is why would you even want a mailing list
> that is ONLY technical support for an operating system. This issue of
> people wanting to talk about Ubuntu has come up so often I believe
> that others who run mailing lists with the rule - ontopic = distro
> related - have got it right.
> 
> Which, incidentally, is also how most open source software related
> lists are run.

A good example is the debian user list:
debian-user at lists.debian.org

If there are rules it doesn't  show but the list is friendly and mainly
on-topic.  It doesn't want nor need net nannies nor moderators.
Everyone  tolerates off-topic with some disdain but mostly stay
on-topic.  Rants occur as do disagreements but aren't resulting in
constant bickering back and forth by anyone thinking the list should be
more tolerant and friendly and so being intolerant and unfriendly about
it like we constantly see here.
Really, for a distro that claims to be ubuntu, where is the humanity?
What ever happened to, "live and let live?"
Why all the power trips?

BTW, the debian-user list has its own CoC.
this is it:
Code of conduct

When using the Debian mailing lists, please follow these rules:

    * Do not send spam; see the advertising policy below.
    * Send all of your e-mails in English. Only use other languages on
      mailing lists where that is explicitly allowed (e.g. French on
      debian-user-french).
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      don't send user-related questions to developer-related mailing
      lists.
    * Wrap your lines at 80 characters or less for ordinary discussion.
      Lines longer than 80 characters are acceptable for
      computer-generated output (e.g., ls -l).
    * Do not send automated "out-of-office" or "vacation" messages.
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    * Try not to flame; it is not polite.
    * Use common sense all the time.

Personally, I think this list could use the very same CoC
(changing,"debian," to, "Ubuntu," of course) and do much better thereby.

Cybe R. Wizard
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