On (10/24/02 13:53), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:27:31AM -0700, Daniel Goldin wrote: > > David Wheeler is a self-professed Linux newbie, attempting to install > > Redhat for the first time. Singling him out--however gently--seems to > > me a bigger breach of etiquette than sending email in html form. Not > > the kind of welcome one would hope to get from an open-source > > community. > > > Sorry Dan, but pointing out to people that they should change the way > they are posting is actually the recommended thing to do according to > the netiquette experts: > > Eric S. Raymond, Author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" wrote a document > about how to ask smart questions. Its a superbly helpful document and > it can be found here: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >
Agreed. I may have gone overboard suggesting that the onus should be on the receiver. But I did feel that the tone of the complaint was unnecessarily irritable. There are gentler ways of pointing out correct etiquette, especially to people who are unlikely to have read Eric Raymond et al., rather than venting one's irritation. -- Daniel Goldin 323.225.1926 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
