Re: list etiquette

2016-06-07 Thread Carlo Caione
On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 7:40 PM,   wrote:
> Hi Tobin,
>
> On Mon, 06. Jun 18:53, Tobin Harding wrote:
>> LKML list etiquette question.
>>
>> When asking a [simple] question that receives an suitable answer is it 
>> correct
>> etiquette to reply with a thank you email or is this just adding noise to the
>> list?
>
> Someone reading your question (and the suitable answer) later on might wonder
> if the answer was correct or not. So yes, it is always useful to reply with a
> "thank you" if the answer was correct and useful.

This generates useless spam and traffic in a ml that already counts
hundreds of mails per day.

-- 
Carlo Caione

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Re: list etiquette

2016-06-07 Thread mhornung . linux
Hi Tobin,

On Mon, 06. Jun 18:53, Tobin Harding wrote:
> LKML list etiquette question.
> 
> When asking a [simple] question that receives an suitable answer is it correct
> etiquette to reply with a thank you email or is this just adding noise to the
> list?

Someone reading your question (and the suitable answer) later on might wonder
if the answer was correct or not. So yes, it is always useful to reply with a
"thank you" if the answer was correct and useful.

> 
> thanks,
> Tobin.

With best regards

Michael
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Re: list etiquette

2016-06-07 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler

m...@tobin.cc wrote:

> LKML list etiquette question.  When asking a [simple] question that
> receives an suitable answer is it correct etiquette to reply with a
> thank you email or is this just adding noise to the list?

(Probably obvious, but you can always reply with a "thank you",
sent directly to the people who answered rather than to the list.)

- FChE

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