From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [62.70.27.18] (helo=esparsett.troll.no) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H9nYO-0006ZW-Ep for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:13:04 +0100 Received: from esparsett.troll.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 84E3560061; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:13:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.trolltech.com.au (unknown [10.1.1.12]) by esparsett.troll.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0323660004; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:13:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from [172.18.1.8] (unknown [172.18.1.8]) by mail.trolltech.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id E13E02BEC11; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:12:57 +1000 (EST) From: Lorn Potter Organization: Trolltech Pty. Ltd. To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:12:18 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200701250512.18920.lpotter@trolltech.com> Cc: Holger Freyther Subject: Re: Advertising Policy on mailinglists X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:13:04 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 24 January 2007 20:59, Holger Freyther wrote: > Hi pals, > > We should create an advertising policy for our mailinglists. I think > this a technical mailing list and everything not technical is off topic. > I think we should adopt point 7 of http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ > mailinglists/etiquette.php#e7 to avoid further disturbance. > > If there is real need for posting job offers we could ask our friends > at linuxtogo to create a market place mailinglist where product > announcements, job offers, are on topic and wanted. > > thanks for listening and do you have any comments? > is it really that big of problem, or is it that you just have a problem with Trolltech in general? How are you planning to enforce your "advertising" policy (if posting a job is advertising)? Are you planning to become a moderated list, then? I sent that post here, because I thought that some person involved with oe might want an interesting job with a fast growing company, sorry if you took offense. There is always your delete button. -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter Software Engineer, Hardware Group, MES, Trolltech Opie Core Developer http://qtopia.net