[Live-devel] Reminder: Please use professional email addresses on this mailing list

[Ross Finlayson]

A reminder, once again, that if you want to be taken seriously on 
this mailing list, you should use a professional email address - 
i.e., one with a domain name that represents an organization (company 
or school), or at least a custom domain name.  If, instead, you use a 
casual 'hobbyist' email address - e.g., "@yahoo", "@gmail", 
"@hotmail", "@aol" - I'm going to assume (absent strong evidence to 
the contrary) that you're just an inexperienced newbie, working out 
of your parents' basement.  Posts from such email addresses will 
*always* be moderated and delayed (sometimes for several days), and I 
will usually not bother responding to them.  (In contrast, people who 
use professional email addresses will often have only their first 
post to the mailing list moderated, and I am much more likely to 
answer their questions.)

I'm serious about this.  This software is intended for experienced 
developers of system software - not beginning, casual programmers. 
If you don't have the sophistication to use a professional email 
address, then this software is probably not for you.  Recently, I 
have been seeing many posts from people who are clearly way out of 
their depth - and almost all of these have been from "@gmail" etc. 
email addresses.  I don't want to have to ban such email addresses 
from posting to the mailing list, but I have no choice but to treat 
them less seriously.
-- 

Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/