On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:43:45PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Agreed. It may be a good idea to add to the mailing lists code of > conduct a couple of extra lines: > > A lot of questions asked on debian-user and debian-devel are asked > regularly. Please consider searching using an Internet search engine > and reading the mailing list archives, Debian install notes and Debian > reference manual before you post. If you can't find the answer, it is > very helpful to others to show that you have attempted at least some of > the above and your degree of success. > > If you have a problem, please be prepared to give hardware/installed > software and version information if requested to as part of the process > of problem resolution. > > Politeness and precision in use of language both help to narrow down > issues and constrain extraneous discussions and flame wars. If tempted > to start or continue contentions threads, please consider moving these > to private email or to debian-curiosa. Both debian-user and debian-devel > are high-volume lists read by people worldwide: consideration should be > given to the fact that the views and attitudes of others may differ from > your own.
Seconded. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]