On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 01:02:55PM -0400, Marc Paré wrote: > There should be a recurring reminder of the mailist and Gmane list > rules. There are many who are new to mailists and have never had the > experience in group mailist etiquette. Some people find it > annoying/frustrating when people top-post, quote whole passages etc. > But we should be happy that there is so much participation. It just > means that we need to every now and then send out a gentle reminder > of the rules. I think that the "Mailist etiquette -- gentle > reminder" should be posted every now and then by the Mageia ML > maintainer just to add a little formality to the message. > > Mailist etiquette: > > - English language only please on the mailist > - no top posting please > - when answering, please quote the relevant sentences that is being replied > - please do not break the threads. Do a proper "Reply" from your > email agent and your email will be "nested" with the right > discussion thread. > - please do not hijack threads by "Replying" and then changing the > "Subject" line of the mail
I think it would help if these etiquette rules would be part of the confirmation message people receive when signing up to these lists. I know everyone is mega-utterly busy, but a few minutes here might save a lot of time and annoyance over and over :-) Kind regards, Remco
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