[vdr] Mailing List Etiquette

[Clemens Kirchgatterer <clemens@thf.ath.cx>]

I hope you don't mind for posting this. i find it quite important!
I have stolen the mail from some other mailing list, but i can't
remember which ... anyway ...

Due to the increased volume of traffic currently appearing on the VDR
mailing list and the recent discussion about breaking threads, it's
about time for a reminder of mailing list etiquette.


E-mail formatting
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Mailing list email should fit the following criteria:

DO
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* Trim quoted material to the minimum needed to clarify what you're
  talking about. Please visit http://learn.to/quote .
* Make sure you are attributing material to the correct person 
  (i.e. make sure the "On 19/07/2002, Joe Bloggs said:" is correct)
* Write your responses *after* the quoted text, not before.  If your
  mail client makes it difficult to do this, get a new one!
* Make sure lines are wrapped at 76 characters (to fit an 80 character
  wide screen)

Don't
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* Post in either HTML-only or in Text and HTML.  If your mail client
  doesn't support not doing this, please change it.
* Top post
* Give a one line answer having quoted the whole post
* Use too long a signature
* Reply where you should start a new thread

In general, make emails as short as possible whilst keeping them
comprehensible.


General Etiquette
=================

This can really be summed up in one phrase - 'be polite'.  

If you think something is off-topic, don't reply to the list although 
you may want to send a short and *polite* note to the person privately 
telling then which list would be more appropriate; don't just say - 
"that is OT for here".

If someone flames or trolls the list, don't reply - it wastes everyones
bandwidth.

Don't reply to spam which gets through to the list.

Resources
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* The ultimate guide to most matters to do with email etiquette is
  RFC-2822 which can be found at: 

  ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2822.txt


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