Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:37:30PM -0800, Justin Gallardo wrote:
> Hey All,
> I am preparing a presentation to a group of students on mailing list netiquette
> (as you may have guessed by the subject), and thought that maybe I could use
> the busiest mailing list I followed as a good source of information. I have
> thought of numerous things to bring up in the presentation including rules
> about top-posting(not doing it), tips to help keep the flow of conversation,
> and other various things. There was one thing that I wasn't quite sure what
> everyone's opinion was though. When replying to an email, is it proper to leave
> the original poster in the To: line of the email, and the CC the list? Or is it
> better to just send your reply to the list, not specifically mentioning the
> original poster. Possibly it is acceptable to just do whatever Reply All in
> your client gives you(I would think the effect of this is configurable through
> the mailing list). I was curious if I could get other's input on this matter.
> Also, if you can think of any other good points to bring up during this talk, I
> would love to hear them. The purpose of the talk is to help create better open
> source community members for the future. So any help now could possibly save
> you some heartache later :-).
>
> Thanks a bunch.
>
> --
Hi Justin,
heres a few:
- -remove chunks of the post if possible as its better to not send 50 line
posts each time if you are only replying to 2 lines.
- -if the person is responding to a mailing list, reply to the list only
- -unless the person does not read the list or the person asks you too. On
debian-user, we read the list -- no need to get 2 replys.
- -dont flame
- -always provide error message verbatum and other info that give the folks hints
to help you solve the problem otherwise they will ask you for it later
- -dont paraphrase error message -- it only wastes time (see above)
- -dont use html
- -keep signatures less than 15 lines
- -make example data anonymous/remove personal data in examples
cheers,
Kev
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