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<div>I've changed the thread title to keep it separate and distinct
from the old topic.</div>
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<div>><a
href="http://microformats.org/mailinglists-policies"
>http://microformats.org/mailinglists-policies</a> is a pretty good
policy which we could just adopt.</div>
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<div>I would suggest a couple of changes to that, first:</div>
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<div>"List messages may not be republished in any public forum
[...]"</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>"Do not send attachments to the list. Ever."</div>
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<div>That would kind of break all the digital signature files. Make an
exception for those, at least?</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>-Shade</div>
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