[OpenID] Mailing List Policies

[David Recordon]

Yeah, I also am fine with attachements.  I like the no cross posting rule
even if it's hard to enforce.

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 1:31 PM, SitG Admin <sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
> wrote:

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