On Monday 12 June 2006 19:00, Justin R Findlay wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:58:54AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > My question is, what are the local rules around here for how to > > behave on list? I'm very much old school, and prefer lists over > > forums - in my world top posting, no snipping, HTML mail and > > hi-jacking threads are a huge no-no, pretty much strict RFC1855 > > compliance :-) > > I don't think there are any 'rules' local to this gentoo-user list. > While it is important to maintain good email behavior on any > mailing list it's also important to be accepting/forgiving of > newbies who aren't blessed from the begining with all the knowledge > of 'netiqutte' that we are. "Be broad in what you accept and > discriminating in what you send." (I don't remember the exact > quote.) Threads that degenerate into flamewars over trivial things > like top posting are usually pretty amusing^H^H^Hboring anyway.
That's pretty good advice. Top-post flamewars are good fun if you are the one doing the flaming and very boring otherwise :-) p.s. please excuse the several dupes from me that ended up on this very thread this morning. smtp.saix.net serves almost the whole country and it went down this morning - a main cable was severed. Until that was fixed the machine was doing strange things with it's mail queues. -- If only me, you and dead people understand hex, how many people understand hex? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [email protected] mailing list
