tower@ai.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (07/27/89)
We have set up a mailing list gatewayed with a USENET newsgroup for people to discuss GNU, FSF, LPF et.al. It's charter is attached and has been added to etc/MAILINGLISTS in the GNU Emacs distribution. Please read it before contributing. a copy of the file is available from our inquiry address: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu This list is the place for all discussion not appropriate to the other mailing lists and newsgroups (which are for announcements and bug reports). Announcements in the other gnu mailing lists about controversial FSF policies should be discussed on gnu-misc-discuss. I expect to follow this list when I return from vacation in two weeks. People who left info-gcc et al because of the non-appropriate postings are invited to resubscribe by mailing to: info-gcc-request@prep.ai.mit.edu One more comment: Don't trust pronouncements made about what GNU is, what FSF position is, what the GNU General Public License is, etc., unless they are made by someone you know is well connected with GNU. The recent flamefest on info-gcc was full of a lot of mis-information. enjoy -len * gnu-misc-discuss-request@cis.ohio-state.edu to subscribe to gnu-misc-discuss ** gnUSENET newsgroup: gnu.misc.discuss ** List submittal address: gnu-misc-discuss@cis.ohio-state.edu This list is for serious discussion of freed software, the GNU Project, the GNU Manifesto and their implications. It's THE place for discussion that is not appropriate in the other GNU mailing lists and gnUSENET newsgroups. Flaming is out of place. Tit-for-tat is not welcome. Repetition should not occur. Good READING and writing are expected. Before posting, wait a while, cool off, and think. USENET readers are expected to have read ALL the articles in news.announce.newusers before posting. If news.announce.newusers is empty at your site, wait (the articles are posted monthly), your posting isn't that urgent! Readers on the Internet can anonymous ftp these articles from wsmr-simtel20.army.mil under directory PD2:<UNIX-C.USENET>. Someone from the Free Software Foundation will attempt to follow this group as time and volume permits. Remember, "GNUs Not Unix" and "gnUSENET is Not USENET". We have higher standards!