"+1 to either banish tinyurl/bit.ly, or to always postfix with bracketed real domain."
If we have a charter/constitution requiring that inappropriate content be banned from the list, postfixing short urls is overkill and inconvenient IMO. I also cannot remember the last time inappropriate material on the list was a problem (unless there is a link to a gpl related project and you work at M$). DK told me years ago, "people i work with and their kids see the list, so be careful what you link or say". I respect his request and , I believe, I have avoided any mature content. "A disclaimer is an even better and faster way to regulate without being hard line. You can still be a benevolent dictator and let people have their freedoms." +1 for disclaimer. Chris... On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Randall Whitman <909li...@whizman.com> wrote: > >> It is not uncommon to see local linux chapters in Web 2.0, Where 2.0, >> OSCON, SCALE and the like. > + Software Freedom Day, linuxworld, ... > >> I think one of the key phrases should be "Be Professional". >> This email list should be Professional emails. > > The list should be open to both professionals and amateurs. > All the same, open to amateurs and newbies - is very different from, > and does not imply, open to illegal or childish posts. > >> I have meet people that had no clue there was Linux meetings in the area. > So true. Of the Linux users i've met through means other than LUGs, > *none* of them new about the LUGs. > >> Even just a postfix behind the short url like slashdot does >> so if you send you a bit.ly link, it says something like: "bit.ly/xxxx >> [microsoft.com]" > > +1 to either banish tinyurl/bit.ly, or to always postfix with bracketed > real domain. > > > Randall > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
