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Re: "thanks" messages on mailing lists/bug reports



On Vi, 27 iun 14, 15:45:21, Sven Bartscher wrote:
> Greetings everyone,
> 
> I recently started contributing to debian.
> Before that, most of my writing with people I don't know personally
> through the internet was on Stack Exchange.
> On Stack Exchange, messages that only consist of thanking people or
> agreement are not considered helpful.
> This in mind I'm very unsure if I should write messages like that to
> someone or if I should avoid them (to not annoy anyone with them), on
> Debian mailing lists or bug reports.
> 
> What is your experience with that?
> How do you feel if you read such messages?
> Maybe more important: How do you feel if you don't get such messages?

I'd recommend this for support lists (e.g. debian-user):
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#followup

Kind regards,
Andrei
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