On 24 September 2010 20:02, Marc Paré <[email protected]> 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 > > The exchange of ideas makes us all grow. Mageia, the magic continues. > > Marc >
Adding to the above list: - Please always set the text line wrap in your email client to ~72 characters. (the number of characters per line seems to be a debatable issue; 72 chars per line is used in both evolution and claws-mail, so...). -- Ahmad Samir
