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From: Greg Smith <[email protected]>
To: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Avoiding legal email signatures
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:33:58 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> If enough people do that, it might coerce people to avoid them, and
> perhaps we could put something in the FAQ about it.

You should just say flat-out that the terms of the mailing list are 
incompatible with confidentiality and similar legal disclaimers because 
the way messages are archived make that technically impossible.  Put it in 
the FAQ, put it in the message people get when they subscribe.  Then 
enforce similarly to how bad top posting is dealt with now:  everyone 
understands that people get only a curt response, perhaps just a pointer 
to the relevant documentation, and instead are told the specifics of their 
messages can't be addressed on the list while there's a disclaimer 
attached.

Just ignoring them altogether will just give the community a bad 
reputation for being unresponsive.

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* Greg Smith [email protected] http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

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