[Eg-oversight-board] Oversight Board Discussion List - Decision Needed

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On May 16, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote:
> I'm for using the same method for keeping spammers at bay on the Oversight Board list as the other lists use (e.g. the Catalogers list that just verifies valid email addressess). That seems reasonable and perhaps a good policy to utilize in general.

Another advantage is that implementing it is a matter of flipping a couple switches, as it where.

> In fact, is this a good time to suggest a policy that all Evergreen Community Mailing Lists remain open for anyone wishing to subscribe to them (with some kind of disclaimer related to spammers or people disrupting the stated purpose of the list....or something like that?)?  One of the values listed during the community meeting at the Conference was transparency so this might be a good way to support that value.
> 
> Are others in support of developing one related to the mailing lists?  And if so, do you have some better suggestions for the language of such a policy?  

A couple policies that come to mind are Apache's [1] and Debian's [2].  The Apache policy is nicely minimal since it just appeals to general netiquette, but the Debian policy strikes me as a good template that's a little more explicit about expectations for mailing list participants.

[1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html
[2] http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/

Regards,

Galen
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