Linux-il-chat
From Hackers-IL
This aims to be a charter for the Linux-il-chat mailing list.
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Charter
What is on-topic?
Almost everything. ;-) Well, we aim to be suitable for under-age children, so overtly sexual descriptions and discussions are off-topic. (if you don't like it, start linux-il-pr0n... ;-)). Plus, such discussions tend to disgust even adults. Nevertheless, talks about sex, romantic love, members of the opposite sex (or at your option of the same sex), are welcome. Parents, if you don't like it, don't allow your son or daughter to join.
What can be discussed is:
- Politics. Including Left-wing vs. Right-wing vs. Libertarian Flame-wars.
- Useless or useful holy wars and discussions.
- Movies, television, books, and other arts.
- Science and philosophy.
- Gossip, personal matters, etc.
Why this list?
This list is formed to increase the Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Linux-IL. Generally, Linux-IL discussions that deteriorate into something off-topic, will be moved to linux-il-chat.
How will this list be formed?
Subversion used to have one mailing list for discussions which handled both development discussion and user problems and questions. Eventually, it was decided that the volume would be too high for the users, and that they may be scared of the technical discussion. To remedy this, a new mailing list was formed, which had all the initial users of the developers list (dev@subversion). That way many of the people interested in development were pre-subscribed to it and were able to help people with their problems.
The same should be done for linux-il. The addresses should be injected into the subscriber list of the new list, and those who are not interested can opt out, leaving a body of subscribers there.
Languages
Acceptable languages are English and Hebrew. English is preferable. (both US and GB variants are acceptable) Please use either US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 encodings, and make sure they are properly declared in the message headers.
HTML E-mail is frowned upon, but may be used if a lot of markup (and links) are in order. Just make sure it is a relatively simple and a clean one that can be read in pine or similar mailers.
Mailers should break lines at 80 characters, quote the message using a greater than sign (>) and a whitespace, and generally maintain this standard behaviour. Please configure your mail client accordingly.
