Add section on mailing list safety

Thank you to Taiidan for prompting the addition of this section.
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Qubes Mailing Lists Qubes Mailing Lists
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Staying Safe
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The Qubes mailing lists are open to the public. The contents of the list are
crawled by search engines and archived by third-party services outside of our
control. Please do not send anything to the mailing lists that you are not
comfortable seeing discussed in public. If confidentiality is a concern, please
use PGP encryption in an off-list email.
The Qubes community includes people from all walks of life and from around the
world. Individuals differ in areas of experience and technical expertise. You
will come into contact with others whose views and agendas differ from your own.
Everyone is free to write what they please, as long as it doesn't violate our
[Code of Conduct][coc]. Be friendly and open, but do not believe everything you
read. Use good judgment, and be especially careful when following instructions
(e.g., copying commands) given by others on the lists.
All official announcements from the [Qubes team] will be signed by the PGP key
belonging to the team member who sends the announcement. However, anyone on the
list can choose to sign their messages, so the presence of a PGP signature does
not indicate authority. How, then, should you sort the good advice from the bad?
This is up to each individual to decide, but it helps to know that many members
of our community have proven themselves knowledgeable through their
[contributions] to the project. Typically, these individuals sign their messages
with the same key as (or another key authenticated by) the one they use to
[sign their contributions][code-signing].
For example, you might find it easier to trust advice from someone who has a
proven track record of [contributing software packages] or [contributing to the
documentation]. It's unlikely that individuals who have worked hard to build
good reputations for themselves through their contributions over the years would
risk giving malicious advice in signed messages to public mailing lists. Since
every contribution to the Qubes OS Project is publicly visible and
cryptographically signed, anyone would be in a position to [verify] that these
came from the same keyholder.
Discussion list guidelines Discussion list guidelines
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including many who post to the lists anonymously. (Given the integration of including many who post to the lists anonymously. (Given the integration of
Qubes with [Whonix], we understand better than most the complexities of Qubes with [Whonix], we understand better than most the complexities of
privacy and anonymity, and we know that many users have no other choice but privacy and anonymity, and we know that many users have no other choice but
to post anonymously.) You can read our project's [Code of Conduct][coc] for more information. to post anonymously.) You can read our project's [Code of Conduct][coc] for
more information.
### Specific rules and notes ### ### Specific rules and notes ###
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messages which were sent prior to your subscription to the list. However, a messages which were sent prior to your subscription to the list. However, a
Google account is required in order to post through this interface. Google account is required in order to post through this interface.
[Qubes team]: /team/
[contributions]: /doc/contributing/
[code-signing]: /doc/code-signing/
[contributing software packages]: /doc/package-contributions/
[contributing to the documentation]: /doc/doc-guidelines/
[verify]: /security/verifying-signatures/
[qsb]: /security/bulletins/ [qsb]: /security/bulletins/
[qubes-announce-web]: https://groups.google.com/group/qubes-announce [qubes-announce-web]: https://groups.google.com/group/qubes-announce
[top-post]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style [top-post]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
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[localization]: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20label%3Alocalization [localization]: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20label%3Alocalization
[coc]: /code-of-conduct/ [coc]: /code-of-conduct/
[Transifex]: https://www.transifex.com/otf/qubes/ [Transifex]: https://www.transifex.com/otf/qubes/