Mailing Lists Policy

In order to keep the list a useful and annoyance-free place for everyone, there are a few policies to observe. These policies are intended to make the lives of everyone on the list easier, including you, so please take them to heart.

• Please use the unsubscribe email (show your mail header) to leave the group. Don't make the whole list sad over your departure by mailing them about it.
• Do not crosspost between lists. Send individual copies of a message to each list if you must, but do not send a single message to multiple lists. That holds true for any mailing list, not just this one.
• Trim your replies. If you have more quotation than original text, think about cutting down on the quoted stuff. The list members can look at the message to which you responded, or check the archive. Prune that quoted text with ruthless abandon. Everyone else will thank you for it, especially the list admin(s). Don't forget, thankful list admins are less hasty with the unsubscribe button.
• Avoid the [URGENT] and other similar titles. These are free mailing lists supported by volunteers. They also all have some other urgent tasks to do. Posting in these mailing lists will neither guarantee that you will get an answer or, if you get one, when you will receive it. Please buy some commercial support if your request is urgent or to complex to be able to be correctly treated in a free mailing list: www.jahia.com/support 
• Keep your signature file short. Five lines should be more than enough for anybody, but the fewer the better. One-line signatures automatically get good karma points from the admins.
• No solicitations of employment or requests for applications. There are job boards, Web sites, mailing lists, and other venues for helping stimulate your local economy. Check them out.
• We encourage discussion and debate, and don't mind if it gets a bit heated. However, this does not mean you can flame other list members. If you think someone's flaming you or being needlessly offensive, take it up with them in private e-mail. If they get abusive, discuss it with the list administrators (the e-mail address is in the headers of every list message). Don't take it onto the list. Regardless of how long you've been online, I highly recommend a reading of the following: Avoiding Personal Conflict on Mailing Lists.
• If you're asking for help with a problem, then remember this: A description of your problem is good. A URL to a page showing your problem is much, much better. The two together are sometimes referred to as "mythical" or "legendary." Be a part of the legend.
• Try not to offend other list members, or to feel offended by them.
• If you can, try to NOT send attachments to the list. Try to put whatever you were going to attach on a Web site and post the URL instead.
• No HTML or RTF (rich text) e-mail period, end of story, full stop. Your mail client should let you configure it so you can send plain text messages. Make use of this ability.
• If your address starts bouncing, you will be removed from the list. You will not be notified of this, as we don't keep a list of secondary addresses. It's your responsibility to resubscribe once the problem with your address has been fixed. "Bouncing" includes vacation autoresponders that e-mail either the list or people who post to the list. If we notice or get complaints about either, you'll be unsubscribed right away.
• People who violate the goodwill of the list community will be unsubscribed with extreme prejudice. Not to mention haste.

When posting to jahia mailing lists, remember that your message will be sent to (literally) hundreds of people all over the world. They all have likes and dislikes as individual as your own. They will also be offended by certain things which you may not find remarkable. While you can't foresee every potential area of conflict, there are certain guidelines that are fairly obvious: avoid swearing, cultural insults, blasphemy, proselytizing, and things of that nature. If you wouldn't say it out loud in front of your grandmother while in a place of worship, then you probably shouldn't say it on the list either.