Greetings, On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 08:05:02PM +0100, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
> I just published a blog entry [1]. Although I explained this topic a lot > of times in the past I never wrote down the most basic principles of > e-mail usage. Now I finally did it so I can point friends who are news > in the Free Software community to this short guide. If you find it > useful I will add it to wiki.fsfe.org. I like this small kind of guide very good: main common user's mistakes highlighting, short and useful. It is really sad to see how many people do not know nearly everything of all mentioned here. > - *E-Mail signature* Keep it small and simple. Signatures longer > than five lines should be avoided. The separated for the signature > is “– ” (minus minus blank) and then line break. The blank is > important as many e-mail programs then know that it is a > signature. I think that your editor converted double dash to single longer one. "– " instead of "-- ". > 1. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=405 > 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style > 3. > http://www.fsdaily.com/Beginner/E_mail_usage_in_the_Free_Software_community Very usefull Wikipedia's one! -- Happy hacking, Sergey Matveev () ASCII Ribbon Campaign FSF Associate member #5968 | FSFE Fellow #1390 /\ Keep it simple! _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
