| <h2>Mail Guideline</h2> | |
| <p>Every volunteer project obtains its strength from the people involved in it. | |
| Mailing lists provide a simple and effective communication mechanism. </p> | |
| <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> | |
| <p><b>Before you join these lists, you should make sure that you read and follow | |
| the information below... </b></p> | |
| <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> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li>The "User" list is where you should send questions and comments about | |
| configuration, setup, usage and other "user" types of questions.</li> | |
| <li>The "Developer" list is where you should should send questions and | |
| comments about the actual software source code and general "development" | |
| types of questions. </li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p><b>Summary : Prefix each message 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> | |
| <p><b>Summary: Join the lists that are appropriate for your discussion.</b> <br> | |
| Please make sure that you are joining the list that is appropriate for the topic | |
| or product that you would like to discuss.</p> | |
| <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> | |
| <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> | |
| <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> | |
| <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> | |
| <p> </p> |