Re: [OT] Re: Test Post
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:35:38 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 15:27 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 01:35:40 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> > * Do not send "test" messages to determine whether your mail client
>> > is working.
>>
>> Shouldn't be (or "wouldn't be nice to have", I don't want to sound too
>> agressive) a dedicated mailing list for this purpose?
>
> No! IMO it's ok to sent a test mail. If the subject would be "KMail,
> headers are coming through improper" and the mail's body would inquire,
> if somebody else experienced the same, it wouldn't offend against the
> code of conduct.
Then don't be lazy and write *two* separate posts, each of them in their
own list where they pertain: if you wnat to ask a question, to debian-
user, if you wnat to test your message format, to debian-ml-test ;-)
Because doing what you suggest will result in a mailing list (this) full
of trash and unuseful posts that helps nobody. And remember that all of
the posts are archived to the posterity.
That's why a dedicated mailing list for testing is aimed for, to filter
out the noise of empty/unrelated messages and keeping the rest of the
mailing lists clean.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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