The Mailing List

We have our own mailing list. See http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/phpwm for information on subscribing and archives.

(The following is blatently pinched from the Hants LUG wiki)

The mailing list is currently centre of PHPWMs activity. The mailing list is a service that sends e-mail out to everyone else who is subscribed. To ask a question, or help answer one, you simply send your e-mail to a special e-mail address. Your e-mail is then sent out to all the mailing list subscribers. Other members can then reply to the original e-mail by sending their reply to the same mailing list e-mail address. That reply is then also sent out to all the subscribers. A conversation-like dialog develops, and every member can learn from, or contribute to, the discussion. If you’re confused by that description, then try the list out for a week or so and you’ll soon pick it up!

Discussion is normally around PHP, but can also be rather varied and veer wildly offtopic. All conversations within the mailing list are publicly available on the archive.

It doesn’t cost anything to join the list or take part in discussions.

When posting to the mailing list, we’d prefer :

• No unnecessary swearing (if you do swear, swear at PHP, not at another person/list member).
• You refrain from insulting others
• If things get a bit ‘heated’, pause before replying (and possibly making things worse). It’s all too easy to misunderstand someones intention on an email list, where expression can be difficult (especially with incorrect usage, or lack of, smileys!).
• Please don’t post in HTML or any other non plain text format.
• Try and trim posts you are replying to - scrolling paragraphs down a quoted email just to see something like “me too” at the bottom is almost a wasted effort.
• Some list members prefer for a reply to be bottom of an email, after the original text (bottom posting). It seems illogical in some circumstances to post “me too” at the top of an email, only for a reader to have to read to the bottom of the email to figure out what you had replied to.

Currently the PHPWM mailing list is relatively low traffic, with somewhere between 0 and 15 emails in any one day. If you’d rather not get 15 emails, you can receive a daily digest of traffic when signing up.

If you have any complaints about the mailing list, please contact one of the list admins (DavidGoodwin or KatherineGoodwin).