These rules are issued to assist those who want to build a subscriber base with a minimum of effort while duplicating existing lists. The Net is best served by repeating the same themes over and over again and never coming up with anything new or distinct. The following list lists the techniques which you can employ to cleanly destroy a list you covet while enhancing your own standing in the InterNet community. Remember, just because there is already a mailing list on the subject does not mean that there can't be a new one.
Repetition is a good thing.
Be sure to emphasize this by rehashing the description of the list you are emulating in every possible way. The best way to get a subscriber base for a new list is to steal from another list. Don't publish your list announcement publically, lest the facilitator of the old list and his friends ask you why there needs to be a new list in the first place. Write secretly to those who post on the list and ask them to join. Sooner or later, the existence of your list will be revealed to the owner of the old list.