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        !             2:   Mailinglist Rules
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        !             4: 
        !             5: This is the first file you should be reading before doing any posts on PHP
        !             6: mailinglists. Following these rules is considered imperative to the success of
        !             7: the PHP project. Therefore expect your contributions to be of much less positive
        !             8: impact if you do not follow these rules. More importantly you can actually
        !             9: assume that not following these rules will hurt the PHP project.
        !            10: 
        !            11: PHP is developed through the efforts of a large number of people.
        !            12: Collaboration is a Good Thing(tm), and mailinglists lets us do this. Thus,
        !            13: following some basic rules with regards to mailinglist usage will:
        !            14: 
        !            15:    a. Make everybody happier, especially those responsible for developing PHP
        !            16:       itself.
        !            17: 
        !            18:    b. Help in making sure we all use our time more efficiently.
        !            19: 
        !            20:    c. Prevent you from making a fool of yourself in public.
        !            21: 
        !            22:    d. Increase the general level of good will on planet Earth.
        !            23: 
        !            24: 
        !            25: Having said that, here are the organizational rules:
        !            26: 
        !            27:    1. Respect other people working on the project.
        !            28: 
        !            29:    2. Do not post when you are angry. Any post can wait a few hours. Review
        !            30:       your post after a good breather or a good nights sleep.
        !            31: 
        !            32:    3. Make sure you pick the right mailinglist for your posting. Please review
        !            33:       the descriptions on the mailinglist overview page
        !            34:       (http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php). When in doubt ask a friend or
        !            35:       someone you trust on IRC.
        !            36: 
        !            37:    4. Make sure you know what you are talking about. PHP is a very large project
        !            38:       that strives to be very open. The flip side is that the core developers
        !            39:       are faced with a lot of requests. Make sure that you have done your
        !            40:       research before posting to the entire developer community.
        !            41: 
        !            42:    5. Patches have a much greater chance of acceptance than just asking the
        !            43:       PHP developers to implement a feature for you. For one it makes the
        !            44:       discussion more concrete and it shows that the poster put thought and time
        !            45:       into the request.
        !            46: 
        !            47:    6. If you are posting to an existing thread, make sure that you know what
        !            48:       previous posters have said. This is even more important the longer the
        !            49:       thread is already.
        !            50: 
        !            51:    7. Please configure your email client to use a real name and keep message
        !            52:       signatures to a maximum of 2 lines if at all necessary.
        !            53: 
        !            54: The next few rules are more some general hints:
        !            55: 
        !            56:    1. If you notice that your posting ratio is much higher than that of other
        !            57:       people, double check the above rules. Try to wait a bit longer before
        !            58:       sending your replies to give other people more time to digest your answers
        !            59:       and more importantly give you the opportunity to make sure that you
        !            60:       aggregate your current position into a single mail instead of multiple
        !            61:       ones.
        !            62: 
        !            63:    2. Consider taking a step back from a very active thread now and then. Maybe
        !            64:       talking to some friends and fellow developers will help in understanding
        !            65:       the other opinions better.
        !            66: 
        !            67:    3. Do not top post. Place your answer underneath anyone you wish to quote
        !            68:       and remove any previous comment that is not relevant to your post.
        !            69: 
        !            70:    4. Do not high-jack threads, by bringing up entirely new topics. Please
        !            71:       create an entirely new thread copying anything you wish to quote into the
        !            72:       new thread.
        !            73: 
        !            74: Finally, additional hints on how to behave inside the virtual community can be
        !            75: found in RFC 1855 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html).
        !            76: 
        !            77: Happy hacking,
        !            78: 
        !            79: PHP Team