You raise a good point, which is that I don't know what the group policy
is or where it's posted.  I just see this in the header on the google
groups page:

"Welcome to the Clojure mailing list. Please note that posts by new
members are moderated to prevent spam."

Anyone know better than this?

(2014/06/13 18:50), Josh Kamau wrote:
> If i were to be asked, i would restrict the group to: 
> 1. Any type of question that is related to clojure 
> 2. Any type of announcement on clojure core library
> 3. Any new library/version 
> 4. Any link to a narration on real life usages (e.g how we did xyz with
> clojure) or benchmarks  (generally hard facts )
> 5. Any link to new book, tutorial, training materials. 
> 
> This is just my opinion, I dont know the group policy and may be its all
> up to me to choose what i want to read and what i dont want to and
> probably keep my feelings to myself ;) 
> 
> Josh
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Dave Della Costa
> <ddellaco...@gmail.com <mailto:ddellaco...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I'm not sure what the problem is here.  I've posted personal blog links
>     before that were Clojure related; I sincerely thought that it was
>     potentially useful to the group, and I more or less got responses that
>     supported that.
> 
>     That being the case, I'm having a hard time understanding what is so
>     different about my blog post and Divyansh's; as far as I can tell, this
>     post is relevant to Clojure, even if it's a bit more...exploratory.  It
>     has Clojure code examples, it talks about Common Lisp and Python and
>     metaprogramming.  It's clearly not random spam.
> 
>     So it seems to me that some folks simply don't like the content; that's
>     fine, but I think it's a stretch to say that it's not appropriate for
>     this list.  Or if it is not appropriate, then even relevant blog posts
>     should never be appropriate, and arguably stuff like, say, epic
>     ruminations on the nature of literate programming would arguably be even
>     less appropriate for the list.
> 
>     DD
> 
>     (2014/06/13 11:25), Gary Trakhman wrote:
>     > To be fair, I actually read the thing, but I hoped to see more
>     > interesting information on LSD, meditation and Clojure than the
>     headline
>     > would suggest :-).
>     >
>     >
>     > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Atamert Ölçgen <mu...@muhuk.com
>     <mailto:mu...@muhuk.com>
>     > <mailto:mu...@muhuk.com <mailto:mu...@muhuk.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     There's also Planet Clojure <http://clojure.in/>.
>     >
>     >     @Divyansh
>     >
>     >     Josh, Hussein and Gary are not the only ones who think this
>     sort of
>     >     traffic building is uncool. By traffic building I mean; sending a
>     >     message with a link that has no valuable information for the group
>     >     members. They are probably just nodding their head and
>     thinking that
>     >     sending another response is not necessary. At least that's what I
>     >     did before I saw your response.
>     >
>     >     90% of the messages in this group doesn't interest me. That's
>     fine.
>     >     Valuable information for someone else. But I certainly
>     wouldn't want
>     >     everybody to post their blogs here regularly. Because each message
>     >     is a tiny little distraction. I'm willing to pay the price because
>     >     when a really cool library is announced for example, I get a big
>     >     reward. Let's keep the benefit/cost ratio, time-wise &
>     >     attention-wise, high.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >     On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Gary Trakhman
>     >     <gary.trakh...@gmail.com <mailto:gary.trakh...@gmail.com>
>     <mailto:gary.trakh...@gmail.com <mailto:gary.trakh...@gmail.com>>>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >         Twitter's a more organic way to do this.  Your followers can
>     >         read it, decide to retweet or not.
>     >
>     >
>     >         On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Divyansh Prakash
>     >         <divyanshprakas...@gmail.com
>     <mailto:divyanshprakas...@gmail.com>
>     >         <mailto:divyanshprakas...@gmail.com
>     <mailto:divyanshprakas...@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >             Sorry if you feel that way. Thought i could share my
>     >             thoughts and start an interesting discussion.
>     >             That is what the group is for.
>     >             You are obviously free to skip anything that doesn't
>     >             interest you. That was the prime reason for the
>     concise title.
>     >             I have no intentions of misleading anyone.
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