RE: [Mondo-devel] Social Contract

Nice. Well Said, Bravo.
--- Ugo Bellavance <ug...@ca...> wrote:
> Objet : RE: [Mondo-devel] Social Contract
> 
> 
> Just curious, but what use is a social contract when you put all the
> obligation onto the user?
> 
> Jonathan Scott
> 
> ---Ugo
> 
> Ok, it might not be a valid contract.  It might not be social either, but
> since the devteam doesn't have any obligation towards non-paying users, there
> is no obligation on the devteam's side.  What Hugo tries to do is to avoid
> being pissed off by people who didn't try to help themselves first and don't
> understand that the devteam's resources are limited.  Finally, he wants to be
> able to redirect people like this to this "agreement", saying that if they
> respect this "agreement", they'll be treated the same way other compliant
> users are, and if they don't respect the "agreement", they'll end up at the
> end of the queue (they will get help when Hugo will have nothing to do i.e.
> never).
> 
> 
> *** please avoid posting in HTML***
> 
> hth
> Ugo
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mon...@li...
> [mailto:mon...@li...]On Behalf Of Hugo Rabson
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 10:44 PM
> To: mon...@li...
> Subject: [Mondo-devel] Social Contract
> 
> 
> I am thinking of writing and publishing a social contract which a list-member
> is taken to have agreed to, when they join the mailing list. Something like
> this:-
> 
> DUTIES OF THE USER
> 1. To try to troubleshoot the problem myself, as best I can.
> 2. To read the output log file of mondoarchive, mondorestore and/or mindi (as
> applicable).
> 3. To use the latest snapshots (or CVS checkouts) when reporting bugs.
> 4. To make it clear what he/she wants.
> 
> I always held these truths were self-evident but apparently I've been naive.
> Comments?
> 
> Or perhaps I should simply post a set of rules to the list every week?
> 
> -Hugo
> 
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