I don't believe that everyone believes in pruning out everything. Many people reply at the top. If for no other reason than replies can be kept in context. I don't want to start a war about email etiquette here, just to say that I believe that not everyone agrees with points 3 & 4 below.
BTW, what happened to point #2? Regards, Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:59 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: List FAQ etc Klein, Robert (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote: > I recently joined this list. The welcoming email gave a couple of URLs > for such things as FAQs, but when I tried to access the urls, I got a > page not found message. If these pages still exist somewhere else, > could someone please provide the new urls. Also, the owner of the list > might want to update the welcoming email. Thanks. There should be a separate email address of the owner; some list owners listen, some don't. I think the owner of this list actually reads it, though he doesn't actually write very often. Generally 1. Be nice:- 3. Prune irrelevant material, as I just did. 4. On most lists, respond in context to the points you want to address rather than responding at the top, with the attendant risk of leaving readers guessing which point you're talking about. Venture off-topic carefully. Discussing a war in the middle east is risky, but you might get away with a reference or two to mainframes of the 60s and 70s. Oh, try to solve your problem(s) yourself first, and make it clear by describing what you have done. Links in my sig offer other advice on this. People on this list and others like it are here because it's fun and they like helping. Few, if anyone, are paid to help people here. Finally, a problem description like this, "My computer won't boot," may well be ignored. People need details to make a sensible guess at what might be wrong. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
