-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | 'under construction' | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
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