[HanoiLUG] [OT] Netiquette [was: Next Linux install-party ?]

[David Tremblay]

Interesting that you are raising the issue

In fact, I've found that most people are unaware of netiquette, or worst
don't understand that a mailing list is something public.

As we experience more traffic and more popularity it is very likely that
we'll have more people who :

* knows nothing about linux or even computers
* don't know how to ask a question 
* don't know how to search for an information
* don't know what is a mailing list
* don't know that a Linux User Group is not responsible for a borked
installed
* Will say "if you don't fix my problem, I'm going back to windows"(tm)
* Don't understand the real nature of Freedom/libre Open source Software
and still understand it as something similar to
* Make a confusion between Ubuntu/fedorar/"distro name" and Gnu/linux
* More people asking things such as windows vs linux stuff or distro vs
distro stuff
* More people with real problem but can't explain them clearly 

I suggest that a small reminder on the wiki / blog and the mailing list
subscription page and the  monthly reminder be written with the
following :

- search the internet before posting
- search the archive before posting
- provide background information on the problem (lspci dmesg etc)
- some link for information 
- basic netiquette behaviour

I suggest it is written in Vietnamese, on the wiki before. I think that
would be part of the normalization of the HanoiLUG




Le mardi 17 avril 2007 à 22:53 +0700, Le Xuan Thao a écrit :
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:18:11PM +0700, Jean Christophe André wrote:
> > Le Xuan Thao a écrit :
> > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 07:49:51PM -0700, Truong Anh Tuan wrote:
> > >   
> > >> However, at this time, I am not sure what exact place and time for
> > >> that party (too much discussion :).  Anyone can tell me that.
> > >> Thanks!
> > >>     
> > > From what I see, traffic on this list is quite low that anyone with
> > > minimum skill at using email can manage. So I would suggest that you
> > > should stop using Yahoo webmail when engaging a group discussion.
> > > Yahoo webmail IU sucks badly for that purpose, makes it very
> > > difficult to follow a thread.
> > >   
> > Even if I fully agree with you (Yahoo! beeing also very bad at Unicode
> > support) please keep being friendly when sending emails on this list
> > (and flame as much as you want in real life! ;-)).
> 
> No flame was intended here. After third times in a few days someone asks
> for information that already on the list, I decided that it'd be good
> for everyone if some netiquette is repeated.
> 
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