Posting rules for g.d.o

A user on g.d.o has posted three discussions to most (if not all) of the 44 groups s/he is a member of. Not only are these support questions off topic in all except possibly the regional ones, they really belong in the forum anyway. I edited the posts and informed the user that discussions should only be posted in groups where they are on topic and no more than four groups. The user's response was to ask for a link to the rules. I went to get the link only to discover there isn't one and the rules I had been going by actually only apply to job postings.

I think these rules are good rules for all node types, not just jobs, and so need to be expanded. They may seem like common sense but, trust me, I've edited many, many discussions that were posted to a ridiculous amount of groups and we need to have these rules to point to and not just assume people will be sensible.

Here's my proposal:

• Discussions should only be posted to groups where they are on topic. Note that support questions, even if related to the topic of the group, may not be welcome. Check the group's policy on support questions before posting. General support questions should be posted to the forum or in your local user group (if allowed).
• Discussions should usually only be posted to one group and are not be posted to more than four groups. Your post is read by many people via email, RSS feeds, and various web sites and you may be sending the same discussion four times to the same person.

I don't know if we want to get any more detailed than that, possibly mentioning things like no commercial postings? Also, I left off the warn/block sentence from jobs and perhaps we should have that? I'm trying to keep this simple so it can be put in place with minimal bikeshedding. Perhaps add these two which hopefully make sense to everyone and go from there?

Michelle