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 <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" 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>
 </ul>

 <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>

 <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>

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	<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" 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>
	</ul>

	<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>

	<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>

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