On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:03:21 -0800, peasthope wrote: > From: lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> > Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:01:40 +0200 >> Do you know of a good reference that teaches people how to post I could >> point to in my signature?
I -for sure- must have missed Lee's message. > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists would be appropriate. > > At > # Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:56:37 -0800 # Message-id: > <171057104.81445.74650@cantor.invalid> I asked for feedback about the > page but haven't seen a reply. The topic must be a low priority for most > people. And also this! Okay, here you have my feedback (and thanks for caring about this). Points *I do love* from that list: - no html (...) - Attribute quotes, and do so accurately. - Keep the discussions on the list (...) Things I would review from the wiki article: - Keep the uppercase for the first word in all of the points. Now some of the points start with uppercase and others with lowercase, this needs to be normalized :-) - I would add a section about Off-topic [OT] threads and the proper way to manage them when they -inevitably or not- come up. I am, speaking for myself, very tolerable regarding off-topics (whatever the nature of the off-topic is) when the poster tags the thread correctly to avoid other user's annoyance. Off-topics are something to avoid but I wouldn't bother to reply to them or even to post something that could be of interested to the community, provided it has been tagged as [OT]. - MUAs. I would add another section about good e-mails clients to use when dealing with mailing lists (this is my small "whitelist" input: mutt, (al)pine, thunderbird/icedove, evolution, claws and in my "blacklist" I will put all sort of commercial webmails (gmail, yahoo, hotmail), the outlook family (from express to 2010) and windows mail/live mail. - As for the "reply" function, the user has to keep in mind that this mailing list does not make "address munging" (which I think is a correct decision) and he/she needs to be careful when his/her MUA does not provide the option to "reply to the list". The user can refer to the above whitelist of MUAs which provide such function. - Following messages. The user can track messages (sending/posting) by many ways but I would recommend mainly two methods: 1/ subscribing to the mailing list to receive all the posts as usual e-mails (avoid a "digest" format if you are going to reply to the posts) 2/ using a newsreader by means of a news server (e.g., gmane). The latter method does not require subscription and alleviates the user the odyssey of having to deal with a bunch of messages every day. And I think that's all :-P Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2011.10.14.17.21...@gmail.com
