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Re: [debian-user] I'm coming on board



Yall,

I am starting to think that the search functionality does not work, so hot.  

What should I have searched on? This is also a very good reason to 
have a mailing list FAQ and/or a new user mailing list with [debian-new].
We do want to encourage people to use/contribute to debian. ;-)

I would suggest adding to the "Code of conduct" 
"Never send your messages in HTML; post on Debian topics in 
plain text wrapped within 80 columns. Avoid attachments."
.  When I first did send a message to debian-user about 6 months ago, 
I never had any response.  Months later, I discovered it was likely b/c I did 
not wrap @ 80.


Best regards,
Lloyd



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DvB" <dvanbalen@jam.rr.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [debian-user] I'm coming on board


> 
> > | Does anyone else see the benefit for server-side subject line 
> > 
> > Once you have your filters set up, and you view the list of messages
> > in a folder, you alredy know what list they came from because they are
> > in that folder.  Also, some people use mailers in an 80x24 terminal so
> > there are only about 40 characters for your subject to fit on the
> > screen.  If it starts out as "[debian-user] " then you have lost 35%
> > of the space in which to explain your problem so that your message is
> > read before it is filed in the bit-bucket.
> > 
> > I agree that it is nice when you don't have filters, but it is not
> > useful when you do have filters set up right.
> > 
> 
> 
> To add to the above, I believe this issue has also been beaten to death
> on debian-user before... heck I think I even started a thread on the
> subject when I first started reading the list and before I started using
> filters :-)
> 
> Check out the list archive to see what I mean.
> 
> 
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