Florian Weimer <[email protected]> > I've noticed that compared to, say, ten years ago, relatively few > mailing list posters use corporate accounts (or accounts readily > attributable to some larger organization). This phenomenon is not > restricted to Debian mailing lists. If the sender's mailbox looks > corporate (or the topic of the message involves stuff you usually do > not run at home), most of the time, no mail signature with extended > contact information (web, phone, fax) is used. > > I wonder if this is the result of corporate pressure, or if this is > somehow encouraged by the de-facto list policy.
At least as I understand it (IANAL), English business emails should contain a signature with extended contact information (thanks to the Business Names Act, Companies Act, Distance Selling Regs and some other stuff that covers the gaps). I am using a personal mailbox at our internet services consumer co-op. I am not using my business email address because most of the time those footer details would be noise and some list policies do frown on business addresses (crazy but true). Also, I don't have a generally compelling reason to pay for a dog (my personal ISP mailbox) and bark myself (by using my worker co-op mailbox for lists). I don't use my debian.org because I don't change config for each list and probably sometimes I cross the "for private financial gain or for commercial purposes" line in http://www.debian.org/devel/dmup (I'm not a rich guy and need to earn a living, you know?) although I don't send much about my business to debian lists. So, in summary: not corporate pressure and not debian's list policies but a reflection of local laws, and policies of other lists. That went on a bit too long. Why do you ask? Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for various work through http://www.software.coop/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
