[Mageia-discuss] Mailist etiquette -- gentle reminder

[Margot]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:19:47 +0200
Jérôme Martin <mageia at delaur.net> wrote:

> Le vendredi 24 septembre 2010, Marc Paré a écrit :
> > 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.
> Thanks to reminder this etiquette. It was quite difficult to
> follow a thread where people top-posted and others quote all the
> mail including mailing list signature.
> 
> Jérôme
> 
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Most email clients will automatically delete a correctly formatted
signature block. Unfortunately, this list's signature is not
correctly formatted - it should have two hyphens, followed by a
space, followed by carriage return, followed by the signature
contents - so users have to manually delete it.

Compare my personal signature below with the list signature above
to see the formatting problem - perhaps someone with admin powers on
the list setup could correct this?

-- 
Margot
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