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===Recipients=== | ===Recipients=== | ||
| - | Do not include more than 10 other | + | Do not include more than 10 other recipients in the To: or CC: fields when you post to the mailing list. This triggers the spam filter, and your message will most likely be discarded by the mailing list software. |
| - | Always group-reply to an | + | Always group-reply to an message (minding the less than 10 other recipients rule above). Some of the email recipients might not be subscribed, might have turned off email delivery, or may read list messages with lower priority than messages addressed to them directly. For the same reasons it is advisable to add relevant people to the recipient list explicitly. |
==Guideline Violations== | ==Guideline Violations== | ||
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Please remember that when you are posting to a community mailing list, you are in effect asking a large group of people to give you some of their time and attention - to download your message, read it, and potentially reply to it. It is simply polite to ensure that your message is relevant to as many of the people receiving the message as possible. All of these guidelines stem from this basic principle.
Be courteous and polite to fellow members in the list:
Make sure that you have the legal right to post your content and are not violating copyright or other laws.
Remember that thousands of copies of your message will exist in mailboxes:
Post new questions or new topics as new threads (new email message). Please do not reply to a random thread with a new question or start an unrelated topic of conversation in an existing thread. This creates confusion and makes it much less likely that you will get a response.
Avoid posting to multiple lists simultaneously. Pick a mailing list that is most suitable for your post and just use that. CC'ing multiple lists should be avoided.
Only subscribers can post to our mailing lists. If you would like to contribute to our mailing lists, we think it is only fair that you be a subscriber. Please note that if you want to participate only occasionally, you can subscribe to a list and set your email options to digest or no mail and read the web archives when you want to catch up. Some of the MeeGo lists are archived on gmane.org. gmane's web and news interface can be used to reply to archived emails without breaking the email thread.
Do not include more than 10 other recipients in the To: or CC: fields when you post to the mailing list. This triggers the spam filter, and your message will most likely be discarded by the mailing list software.
Always group-reply to an message (minding the less than 10 other recipients rule above). Some of the email recipients might not be subscribed, might have turned off email delivery, or may read list messages with lower priority than messages addressed to them directly. For the same reasons it is advisable to add relevant people to the recipient list explicitly.
See our process for dealing with violations for more details.
Keep in mind that we already have many mailing lists, so new lists need to be justified. Sending a request that has nothing more that "create mailing list x for me" will not be approved without additional justification.
Before you request a new list
How to make the request
Answer the following questions in the request
List naming
Credit to the Fedora Mailing List Guidelines as a starting point under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.