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[docbook-apps] Mailing List Guidelines


                        DocBook Mailing List Guidelines

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   07 Apr 2004

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   Table of Contents

   Posting

   Before You Post

   Replies Go to the Author

   Use Short Quotes of Previous Messages in Replies

   Cross-Posting

   Subscribing and Unsubscribing

   Archive

   Reporting Bugs in Software

   Further Information on DocBook

   Contact

   This information[1] is posted to the DocBook and DocBook Applications
   mailing lists (and their digests) at regular intervals under the subject
   line "DocBook list guidelines".

Posting

   Only subscribers can post to mailing lists, and only from the address they
   used when they subscribed. Mail from unsubscribed addresses is forwarded
   to a moderator and may be forwarded after some delay. Note, however, that
   due to the extraordinary volume of spam, some messages are likely to get
   lost entirely.

   Only text messages may be posted to the lists. If your mail client posts
   using HTML or some other "enriched" format, your message will be rejected.
   This decision was motivated by the fact that the overwhelming majority of
   spam that gets sent to the lists arrives as text/html.

   There are two DocBook-related lists: docbook and docbook-apps. The docbook
   list is for general questions about DocBook. The docbook-apps list is for
   questions about applications (stylesheets, transformation tools,
   publishing tools, processing requirements, etc.) that use or work with
   DocBook.

   Specifically:

     o Questions about DocBook markup (How do I markup a Widget? What's a
       FuncSynopsisInfo for?) should be sent to the docbook list.

     o Questions about XSL or DSSSL stylesheets, publishing DocBook documents
       on your platform of choice, support for PostScript, PDF, or other
       types of output, questions about Windows or Unix applications that can
       consume or produce DocBook should be sent to the docbook-apps list.

   Do not begin your subject line with "help" or "subscribe" since the list
   software will bounce the message because it looks like is an
   administrative request.

   Do not use un-informative subject lines like "Urgent", "Easy question", or
   "Problem". Instead, use a meaningful subject line that will make sense to
   the people whose help you are trying to get.

   Both subscribers to <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org> and
   <docbook-digest@lists.oasis-open.org> should post their messages to
   <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>. The messages will be received by both
   subscribers to the list and subscribers to the digest.

   Both subscribers to <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org> and
   <docbook-apps-digest@lists.oasis-open.org> should post their messages to
   <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>. The messages will be received by both
   subscribers to the list and subscribers to the digest.

   Do not start a new thread by replying to an unrelated message and just
   changing the subject line since the header of your message will contain
   references to the previous message and your new message will appear in the
   archive as one of the replies to the original message. It is better to
   start a new message for a new thread.

Before You Post

    1. Check that you are posting to the right list.

    2. Make sure you are posting from the account that you used to subscribe.
       If you post from another account, your message will be delayed until
       it is approved by hand.

    3. Check that your question isn't already answered in the mailing list
       archives at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/ or
       http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/.

    4. If you are replying to a post, trim the quoted message to just the
       parts to which you are replying.

Replies Go to the Author

   The DocBook lists don't set the Reply-to: header on messages (see
   "Reply-To" Munging Considered Harmful) so replies go to the author by
   default. If you want to reply to the list, make sure you include the list
   mailing address in your reply.

   Most mail readers make this easy by offering two forms of reply:
   reply/group-reply or reply/follow-up, for example. If you want to post to
   the list, make sure you select group-reply or follow-up or whatever your
   mail reader calls it.

Use Short Quotes of Previous Messages in Replies

   Please do not quote entire messages just to add a few lines at the
   beginning or end. Instead, quote the parts to which you are directly
   replying or quote enough to establish the context.

   Everybody on the list has already received the message that you are
   quoting, and anyone searching the archive will find your message and the
   previous message listed under the same thread.

   Subscribers to the mailing list will just ignore most of the quoted
   messages and move to the next post, but subscribers to the mailing list
   Digest will mostly have to page past the quoted messages to reach the next
   material in which they are interested in reading.

Cross-Posting

   Cross-posting between the DocBook mailing lists or to other lists is often
   counter-productive unless everybody who replies to the thread is on both
   lists. Cross-posts from non-subscribers continuing the thread will bounce,
   and mailing list subscribers who are not also on the other list will only
   see half of the thread, as will those on the other list who are not also
   on the mailing list. Subscribers to both lists will see two copies of the
   message, annoying them as well.

Subscribing and Unsubscribing

   Subscriptions to the DocBook lists and their digest forms are managed by
   OASIS: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php.

Archive

   The DocBook mailing list messages are archived at
   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/.

   The DocBook Applications mailing list messages are archived at
   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/.

Reporting Bugs in Software

   Confirmed bugs in software should be reported to its author rather than to
   the mailing list, but it is appropriate to discuss suspected bugs and
   workarounds on the docbook-apps list only.

Further Information on DocBook

   +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   | http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook | The DocBook Home Page              |
   |-----------------------------------+------------------------------------|
   | http://www.docbook.org/           | DocBook: The Definitive Guide      |
   |-----------------------------------+------------------------------------|
   |                                   | The DocBook project at             |
   |                                   | SourceForge.                       |
   |                                   |                                    |
   |                                   | The recommended way to report bugs |
   | http://docbook.sourceforge.net/   | in software maintined in the       |
   |                                   | DocBook Project at SourceForge is  |
   |                                   | with the project "tracker"         |
   |                                   | mechanism. Please be sure to       |
   |                                   | attach a test case that            |
   |                                   | demonstrates the bug.              |
   |-----------------------------------+------------------------------------|
   | http://nwalsh.com/docbook/xsl     | DocBook XSL Stylesheets            |
   +------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Contact

   If you have any questions or problems, please contact Norman Walsh,
   <ndw@nwalsh.com>

   --------------

   [1] Credit where credit is due: I stole the vast majority of this document
   from Tony Graham's excellent posting on the DSSSL and XSL lists. Thanks,
   Tony!

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | The human race consists of the
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | dangerously insane and such as are
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | not.--Mark Twain

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