[CS-FSLUG] ADMIN: News Item Posting

[Timothy Butler]

I would like to point out Ed's post from the others as the official  
standpoint of the list:

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Actually our central theme is how faith and FOSS affect each other. The
moderators posted an appeal to be more restrained in posting things that
were peripheral to faith and FOSS, but some forget. So here we have an
official reminder from a moderator:

C'mon folks, this is not an extension of your personal mailing list.  
Let's
try no more than 3 tagged messages per member in 24 hours, hmmm? If you
have time to post it, take the time to self-filter. Not a hard and fast
rule, but a target. Let's not force the moderators to play rough, okay?
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     Now, speaking only for myself now, I would say both sides should  
consider giving a little. A few general comments:

1.) If you want to post news and so forth, please, please use proper  
tagging. "NI" for News Items *only*, "TD" for theology *only* (prayer  
requests are on topic), "PD" for political discussions and "OT" for  
anything else that seems fairly off the major topics of faith and  
FOSS (Windows and other non-*nix related OSes, jokes, etc.).

2.) We've talked about this one before: please do not post just links  
consistently. Posts should have some useful information without the  
need to follow links (a small paraphrase and one's own commentary  
would be best, but a small clipping from the article is good too;  
remember on the reverse side of the token, you should not post  
complete copyrighted works to the list).

3.) If you do not like NI, TD, PD or OT posts, consider filtering  
them out. That's what the tags aim to do.

4.) If you do not like the aforementioned types of posts, please  
consider e-mailing the administrative list, Christiansource- 
admin at ofb.biz. If we get enough complaints, that may encourage me to  
turn on Mailman's own filtering system, which I believe would allow  
you to opt out of receiving posts in you subscription preferences.  
I've not tried it, so I don't want to spend a lot of time on it if no  
one would use it, however.

     -Tim

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