Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

[Per Carlson <debian@ip4all.net>]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:37:30PM -0800, Justin Gallardo wrote:

> 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.

Here is my 0.02$:

- Never start a new topic by replying to an existing email and just
  change the subject. This will mess things up for people (like me) who
  uses threads. Fortunately proper mail clients (read: mutt) has got
  the knobs to clean up the mess :)

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Per Carlson, Sr. Network Developer