On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This thread was started by Daniel, looking for a survey software in > Debian. Instead of helping him you took the opportunity to invite people > to vote in your survey, completely unrelated to Debian. > > Hijacking a thread is considered rude and it doesn't help your cause > because: > > 1. people will associate your cause with your rudeness > 2. your invitation is buried in an unrelated thread in an unrelated > list. > > IMVHO at the very least you should apologize to Daniel for making it > impossible for him to get a solution for his problem in this thread. He > will very likely have to start a new thread because of your actions. > > If you really insist on sending mails on unrelated topics please start a > new thread with a relevant subject (including "[OT]") so that people who > are not interested can ignore it easily. Beware though that it will very > likely be classified as spam and you might be reported to the > listmasters (if this didn't happen already), who could decide to ban you > from Debian lists.
+1 Furthermore, over and above the list possibly classifying emails originating from elb...@gmail.com as spam, list members might do so individually (as I have). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTikSHOJuUN=7mnrwnb5w5vvwdobxy3r39fmfy...@mail.gmail.com
