UKRiders is a discussion group to help develop and support the UK Circuit Rider movement. Established by Lasa in 2002, it has over 400 subscribers from all corners of the voluntary sector ICT community.
How do I sign up?
Go to the UKRiders list website
Who and what is the mailing list for?
It’s for anyone who wants to know what is being done to develop the UK movement, or who has something to contribute to that process. It is for the open sharing of ideas, debate, and to ask for assistance and share useful and relevant information regarding developmental as well as technical IT/ICT issues for VCS organisations.
How much email?
It varies, but you can expect between 30 and 50 messages a week. All the messages will include the text [ukriders] in the title. You can also change your subscription to receive a weekly digest.
List etiquette
The list is not moderated and is public. List members are asked to respect each other’s opinions at all times and flames or personal attacks will never be tolerated. In general the list polices itself but Lasa, as list owners, reserves the right to remove anyone from the list who does not abide by the spirit of the list.
Please observe the following:
- If the question is ‘how do I make XX work?’ or ‘how do I obtain XX?’ do not, under any circumstances reply ‘but it would be so much easier/cheaper/reliable/supported/more ethical if you used YY’. That is not a useful answer, however true it might be in your view. If, however, you feel that ‘XX’ is clearly inappropriate then please make alternative suggestions in a supportive way.
- If the question is ‘what is the best way to do this?’, then by all means give your personal opinion, but try to be positive about the solution you favour, not negative about other solutions.
- If the question is somewhere in between ‘what do people think of product XX?’ be very cautious before saying ‘but YY is so much better’.
- If a user requests a reply to be offlist please respect this and do not reply to the whole list. Suggestions can also be made off-list, and that on resolution of any issues posters are encouraged to summarise and post back to the list.
- Check before sending! The list is set up to reply to everyone on the list.
And, as it says in Bambi ‘if you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all’. However, saying something nice occasionally when credit is due is welcome!
Users new to mailing lists may wish to refer to USENET and mailing list posting netiquette for general mailing list etiquette.
About the list
It runs on a customised version of Sympa mailing list software and is a Custom NPO Group hosted in the US by npogroups.org, a service of the very wonderful Electric Embers a worker-owned cooperative that provides Internet hosting services for nonprofits, cooperatives, artists and other related entities.
