#6 being my adapted appropriation of Tibet Action Insititute's: https://tibetaction.net/detach-from-attachments/
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Katrin Verclas <[email protected]>wrote: > Looks like the mobileactive.org discussion list guidelines. Verbatim, in > fact, until #6. Which I will, in turn, appropriate... :) > > Katrin > > On Aug 3, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > We have revised the Liberationtech mailing list guidelines to restrict > the sending of attachments to avoid viruses and spyware (#6 below). > > > > A big thanks to Brian Conley and Nathan of Guardian Project for helping > compose the text. > > > > Best, > > > > Yosem > > > > > > > > ***** > > > > Moderation Guidelines: > > > > We've had an influx of super-interesting people join the Liberationtech > mailing list. That would be... YOU!!! We are up to 1,500 members and > counting. You're an amazing bunch of researchers, practitioners, and > journalists. 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