[Mageia-discuss] Mailist etiquette -- gentle reminder

Remco Rijnders remco at webconquest.com
Fri Sep 24 19:43:41 CEST 2010


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 01:02:55PM -0400, Marc Paré wrote:
> There should be a recurring reminder of the mailist and Gmane list
> rules. There are many who are new to mailists and have never had the
> experience in group mailist etiquette. Some people find it
> annoying/frustrating when people top-post, quote whole passages etc.
> But we should be happy that there is so much participation. It just
> means that we need to every now and then send out a gentle reminder
> of the rules. I think that the "Mailist etiquette -- gentle
> reminder" should be posted every now and then by the Mageia ML
> maintainer just to add a little formality to the message.
> 
> Mailist etiquette:
> 
> - English language only please on the mailist
> - no top posting please
> - when answering, please quote the relevant sentences that is being replied
> - please do not break the threads. Do a proper "Reply" from your
> email agent and your email will be "nested" with the right
> discussion thread.
> - please do not hijack threads by "Replying" and then changing the
> "Subject" line of the mail

I think it would help if these etiquette rules would be part of the
confirmation message people receive when signing up to these lists. I know
everyone is mega-utterly busy, but a few minutes here might save a lot of
time and annoyance over and over :-)

Kind regards,

Remco
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