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| <h2>Mail Guideline</h2> |
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| <p>Every volunteer project obtains its strength from the people involved in |
| it. Mailing lists provide a simple and effective communication mechanism.</p> |
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| <p>You are welcome to join any of our mailing lists (or all of them if you |
| wish). You can choose to lurk, or actively participate. It's up to you.</p> |
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| <p><b>Before you join these lists, you should make sure that you read and |
| follow the information below.</b></p> |
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| <p>We ask that you do your best to respect the charter of the appropriate |
| mailing list. There are generally two types of lists that you can join.</p> |
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| <li>The "User" list is where you should send questions and comments about |
| configuration, setup, usage and other "user" type of questions.</li> |
| <li>The "Developer" list is where you should send questions and comments |
| about the actual software source code and general "development" type of |
| questions.</li> |
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| <p><b>Summary : Prefix each message subject with "[Axis2]"</b> <br> |
| You may already know that Axis 1.x is still going parallel with Axis 2.0. So |
| for everyone's convenience, prefix the subject of <b>every mail </b>about |
| Axis 2.0 with [Axis2].</p> |
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| <p><b>Summary: Join the lists that are appropriate for your discussion.</b> |
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| Please make sure that you are joining the list that is appropriate for the |
| topic or product that you would like to discuss.</p> |
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| <p><b>Summary: Do not abuse resources in order to get help.</b> <br> |
| Asking your configuration or user type of question on the developers list |
| because you think that you will get help more quickly by going directly to |
| the developers instead of to the user base is not very nice. Chances are that |
| doing this will actually prevent people from answering your question because |
| it is clear that you are trying to abuse resources.</p> |
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| <p><b>Summary: Do your best to ensure that you are not sending HTML or |
| "Stylelized" email to the list.</b> <br> |
| If you are using Outlook or Outlook Express or Eudora, chances are that you |
| are sending HTML email by default. There is usually a setting that will allow |
| you to send "Plain Text" email. If you are using Microsoft products to send |
| email, there are several bugs in the software that prevent you from turning |
| off the sending of HTML email. Please read this page as well.</p> |
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| <p><b>Summary: Watch where you are sending email.</b> <br> |
| The majority of our mailing lists have set the Reply-To to go back to the |
| list. That means that when you Reply to a message, it will go to the list and |
| not to the original author directly. The reason is because it helps |
| facilitate discussion on the list for everyone to benefit from. Be careful of |
| this as sometimes you may intend to reply to a message directly to someone |
| instead of the entire list.</p> |
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| <p><b>Summary: Do not crosspost messages.</b> <br> |
| In other words, pick a mailing list and send your messages to that mailing |
| list only. Do not send your messages to multiple mailing lists. The reason is |
| that people may be subscribed to one list and not to the other. Therefore, |
| some people may only see half of the conversation.</p> |
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