On Mon, 20 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Which are the guidelines for the Comp.land.perl.misc news group. > What would people think of coming up with a set of similar guide > lines for [EMAIL PROTECTED]? These could be posted at the GNHLUG > web site and posted along with the "monthly reminder" that (in > theory) gets sent out occasionally.
In a former life, I built the abuse handling department of an ISP. Continually, we ran into people who would complain that this or that was off-topic, in violation of their charter or -insert other complaint here-. To take "appropriate" action (and not just tell the customer about netiquette and link them to RFC's/other docs), we would ask for a charter. If that charter couldn't be produced/wasn't posted regularly or visibly, we really couldn't do anything. A charter is a good way to protect against that kind of thing. That being said, a charter -can- sometimes be unnecessary - when a group is small, when a group is made up of friends, or any number of other reasons. While some of those reasons may be true for the gnhlug lists, some certainly won't be. I'm the new guy here, so I'll only offer what I do know: It's helped in other cases, similar to gnhlug. It's also needlessly restricted others. If the charter is reasonable and not held as hard rules and regulations, it could certainly be a nice thing to have. Ben -- It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. ~ Confucius ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
