From: "Ryan Langseth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
One more thing, If you haven't watch/listened to it yet (do it twice):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645
What a terrific link! Perfectly appropriate! At times LMAO because of how
true the lessons are when applied to some of the threads and posters on this
list. It's perfect how you didn't disclose the title ... that came as such
an appropriate surprise when I opened the link. Everyone should view it
(and do it twice just as you suggest). But for everyone who might not have
taken the link, the title is "How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous
People (And You Can Too)." Doesn't have to be an Open Source Project for it
to be applicable. You don't have to view it all ... but everyone should at
minimum view the section on list-server behavior. I give it 2 thumbs up.
Rich
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From: "Ryan Langseth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Posting limits?
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 14:07 -0500, John Scrivner wrote:
Is anyone else getting tired of sorting through the exhaustive amount of
email we are getting on the public list? Much of it is good stuff but I
think we see some people who are posting more than we need to all see. I
am thinking we should consider a post count limit per day per person. I
would like to hear feedback on this concept.
I think limiting posts would be a last resort fix to the problem.
Believe it or not, this is a common problem on almost all email lists.
The main problem is a lack of netiquette on this list. Good email
manners, would fix the problem.
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette read Usenet and Email topics
This is a list of the common annoyances I see on this list,
1) If you are replying to every message in a thread, STOP, Think, Let
others respond, read, then reply.
http://www.ryanlangseth.com/~langseth/Email.png
2) DON'T Start a new thread by hitting reply to the last message in
another thread and changing the Subject line. It is bad form, and will
show up wrong in the mailing list archives and some people's email
client (mine). If you want to branch the subject prefix with your new
topic and was: eg. "Email List Etiquette WAS: Posting Limits?"
http://www.ryanlangseth.com/~langseth/Email.png
3) Remember this list is public, indexed by google. What you post here,
much like MySpace it is going to be around for a very long time. Also
remember this list is the public face of Wispa, if we want to _not_ be
treated like cowboys by others (Telcos, FCC, Govnmt, etc), don't act
like cowboys on the list.
4) DON'T troll. Trolls look for fights, they argue for the sake of
arguing, they reduce conversations to personal attacks.
One more thing, If you haven't watch/listened to it yet (do it twice):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645
Ryan
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