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Hi Folks,

A reminder about mailing list etiquette in general...

DO

- - Cut out irrelevant portions of the message that you are replying to.  
No one wants to see 6 levels of signatures and list footers, and they 
add nothing to the content.

- - Use proper English words -- no one is here to mark your spelling 
skills, but usage of words like ``u'', ``r'', etc. is a dead give-away 
of someone who's too lazy to make himself/herself comprehensible to 
anyone else.

- - Keep your readers in mind when posting.  It's OK to make posts 
interesting with flashes of humour, etc., but don't treat the list as 
your personal stream of consciousness and gabble your reaction to any 
post without thinking about its value to the rest of us.  That's what 
blogs are for ;)

DO NOT

- - Top-post.  Trying to follow conversations in reverse order is a major 
effort, and lots of people will just give up before starting.

- - Reply to an existing post when starting a new topic.  This causes 
problems with threading in any reasonable mail reader, and could cause 
your message to just get ignored or lost in the general noise on a busy 
thread.  Most mailers today have a ``New message to mailing list'' or 
equivalent function, use it.

- - Write about stuff not even tangentially connected with the purpose of 
the mailing list.  Differences between G++ and VC++ are fine; who won 
Indian Idol is not.

To jog your memory, the mailing list guidelines are available at:

http://kandalaya.org/guidelines.html

Regards,

- -- Raju
- -- 
Raj Mathur                [EMAIL PROTECTED]      http://kandalaya.org/
 Freedom in Technology & Software || September 2007 || http://freed.in/
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