In <4d42f987.9050...@gmail.com>, elbbit wrote: >> Yes, *STEALING*. When you 'hijack' the resources the mailing-list owner/ >> operator has provided _for_a_specific_purpose_, for somethin *unrelated* >> to that purpose, you _are_ stealing. > >I would like to invite the mail list administrator to participate in >this discussion (if desired) and clarify for all whether this argument >is "OK." If it is not "OK," I request some clarification.
The mailing list administrators have already provided guidelines for the list usage. They appear at <http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/>. Of particular importance are two sections: Code of conduct <http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct> and Debian mailing list advertising policy <http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#ads> From the Coc: "...off-topic messages [...] are not welcome." "Do not send spam; see the advertising policy below." "Make sure that you are using the proper list." The advertising policy defines "spam" as: "any kind of unsolicited bulk email" The topic for debian-user@l.d.o can be found on <http://lists.debian.org/users.html> and is listed as: "Help and discussion among users of Debian". That's fairly broad. It can certainly be argued that you are within that definition: I am a user of Debian, you and I are engaged in a discussion, assuming you are also a user of Debian then your message was near the beginning of a "discussion among users of Debian". Still, I did find your message off-topic based on my less broad (and a bit subjective) topic that I've observed being used on the list. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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