svn commit: r940948 - /subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html

[hw...@apache.org]

Author: hwright
Date: Tue May  4 16:56:46 2010
New Revision: 940948

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=940948&view=rev
Log:
* site/publish/mailing-lists.html:
  On the section for users@, note that commercial announcements should be
  infrequent.

Modified:
    subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html

Modified: subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html?rev=940948&r1=940947&r2=940948&view=diff
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--- subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html (original)
+++ subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html Tue May  4 16:56:46 2010
@@ -63,7 +63,19 @@
         list, if such a concept makes sense.  If you're in doubt as to
         whether a post should go here or to 'dev', then it should
         probably go here.  first.  People will suggest posting it to
-        'dev' if that's appropriate.</td>
+        'dev' if that's appropriate.<br/><br/>
+        
+        N.B.: If you represent a corporate entity, or offer products or services
+        relating to Subversion, this might seem like a good way to broadcast
+        information to a large group of users.  We would encourage you to
+        think twice about doing so.  The tolerance for
+        <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam">spam</a> on this
+        list is very low, and by abusing it for corporate purposes, you run
+        the very real risk of alienating yourself and your company from
+        the greater Subversion community.  An occasional mail, at an
+        infrequent interval (say, once/month) <em>might</em> be acceptable,
+        but please use common sense.  If it seems inappropriate, it probably
+        is.</td>
     <td><a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-users/"
         >archive</a></td>
     <td><a href="mailto:users-subscribe@subversion.apache.org"