[Sosfbay-discuss] Developing E-list Guidelines

[Duende]

So captain. Two things


1: One of the crew was impersonating an officer and told another they  
better behave or walk the plank. Would you have had them walk the  
plank ?
2: Do you do divorces :-)

Peace

Duende

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On Mar 9, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:

>
> The owner of an electronic mailing list has the authority
> of a pilot or a ship's captain over his vessel.
> If any of you want to get married, contact me off list
> but you'll have to do your vows here.
>
> Ultimately the subscribers have final authority, because
> they can leave for a more useful list.
>
> But for those of you who want more rules than have yet been
> stated, here they are.
>
> 1.  Don't be a jerk.
>
> 2.  This mailing list is for discussing tactics, strategy,
> and business of the Green Party of Santa Clara County.
> That's to be taken broadly: it includes events and action
> of groups we act in coalition with, candidates we might
> endorse and their competitors, business in our region
> or state or planet that might affect us.
>
> 3.  Subscribers are expected to have read and understood
> the famous essay "Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions
> on Netiquette."  It's about Usenet but just about all of
> it applies to email lists, web-forums, and similar things
> that haven't been invented yet.  If you haven't read it,
> google "emily postnews."  If you don't know who Emily Post
> was, the Wikipedia article is enough.
>
> "**NOTE: [Emily Postnews] is intended to be satirical.
>   If you do not recognize it as such, consult a doctor
>   or professional comedian.  The recommendations in [that]
>   article should recognized for what
>   they are -- admonitions about what NOT to do."
>
> 4.  Email messages are expected to be of as much value
> to the recipient as to the sender.  That's why there's
> no postage.  Every message to a mailing list that isn't
> what the subscribers signed up for encourages people to
> leave, even this one.  Before you post, look your message
> over.  Is it really worth sixty progressive activists'
> valuable time?   Remember that's at least half an hour
> of activism that isn't going to happen.  Consider replying
> off list instead.  Your message might be the very first
> thing a newcomer reads, so behave.
>
> 5.  No insults.  No impugning people's motives.
> Remember you can't read people's minds, so don't talk
> about what other people are thinking.  Sarcasm is hardly
> ever appropriate.  Give people the benefit of the doubt.
> No personal back-and-forth.  You're addressing the
> group, not the person who wrote the message that made
> you hit "Reply."  No trolling.  No posting by non-
> subscribers, excepting honored alumnis.  No posting
> in anger.  This isn't a shouting contest.
> No generalizing about people's behavior.  Saying "you
> always do that" or "that's typical of you" is out of line.
> No posting the same thing over and over.
> No attachments; that's why your Internet access comes
> with web server space.
>
> 6.  This mailing list is open to anybody interested in
> its topic.  The question of whether there should be
> a Green Party or we should go reform the Dems from
> the inside instead is way off topic and any Democrats who
> subscribe to disrupt the list with that kind of trolling
> will be immediately unsubscribed and banned from more
> servers than they might have imagined.  That's how we
> deal with people who shouldn't be on the list.
> Expect Democrats to subscribe to find out how we work,
> and try to impress them.
>
> 7.  The archive of this list is public and you should assume
> it is carefully analyzed by the FBI and the state
> Democratic Club every day.  However, anything you post
> is automatically copyright by you unless you disclaim it.
> So if the New York Times runs your message as an Op-Ed
> without your permission you can sue them.
> The IT Subcommittee reserves the right to edit or remove
> your message from our archive at our whim.  (We do that
> when someone wants their phone number hidden, for example.)
> If you want to be able to prove we edited it, sign your
> message body with GNU Privacy Guard.  If you want a
> copy to survive, keep a copy.
>
> 8.  The American Sign Language gesture for "applause"
> (http://www.dictionaryofsign.com/main.php?g2_itemId=7285&g2_myThumb=)
> may be referred to as "twinkle" but it makes more
> sense to write it as "applause."
>
> 9.  No niggling about the rules.  No niggling about
> niggling, either.  Loopholes are unintentional.
> You know what I meant.  No backseat driving.
>
>
> Cameron
>
>
>
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