[Mageia-discuss] Mailist etiquette -- gentle reminder

Remco Rijnders remco at webconquest.com
Fri Sep 24 20:04:31 CEST 2010


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 07:50:27PM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> 2010/9/24 Remco Rijnders <remco at webconquest.com>:
> >
> > 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 :-)
> 
> Sorry, but reality shows that nobody reads such confirmation messages
> except for the part where a password is given or other such
> information. Did you read the whole confirmation message from mailman
> for this list? I did not.

I would have if I had not recognised it was nothing but the default
mailman message.

Or perhaps a pointer to a page with etiquette information instead of the
obvious that gets appened to every post on this list now.

It may not help for all cases (if indeed as you claim nobody reads these),
but surely it can't hurt?

Remco
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