[OpenID] Re: Mailing List Policies

[SitG Admin]

I've changed the thread title to keep it separate and distinct from 
the old topic.

><http://microformats.org/mailinglists-policies>http://microformats.org/mailinglists-policies 
>is a pretty good policy which we could just adopt.

I would suggest a couple of changes to that, first:

"List messages may not be republished in any public forum [...]"

We obviously have no problem with republishing them on public forums. 
Not just the official (at openid.net) list archives, but Markmail, 
Nabble, and others republish all messages.

"Do not send attachments to the list. Ever."

That would kind of break all the digital signature files. Make an 
exception for those, at least?

I also must caution against keeping complaints entirely private - for 
accountability (those making the decisions should not be able to just 
*claim* there are X users they are acting on behalf of) and 
transparency, there ought to be some (publicly accessible) archive of 
exchanges. I propose a list reserved specifically for flames and 
complaints: subscription optional.

-Shade
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