Re: [Mono-devel-list] [OT] Netiquette in the list
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 20:31 +0200, Valient Gough wrote: Uh oh, the standards police have arrived. This is a public forum, so format your messages as you wish, and wear your fireproof undies. The people with the answers have very limited time; time spent wading through HTML-formatted mails (as Paolo says, a good indication of lack of meaningful content) or paging through screenfulls of unsnipped quoting trying to match context is time spent not hacking on the code. If you want your question to the list answered, you need to make it as easy as possible to see what the problem is. That means providing it in the format generally expected (ie meaningful subject, concise inline quoting, plain text.) Otherwise it's likely that the mail will just be deleted unread while we're scanning through the list. Indeed, if you can't be bothered to do that why should we bother to respond? - Dick ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
Re: [Mono-devel-list] [OT] Netiquette in the list
On 03/31/05 Sunny wrote: is there a place I can read about the rules in this list? I see a lot of messages both top and bottom quoted, Top-posting should not be used: it usually just means that people using them don't know how to use the arrow keys on their keyboard. Usually the same people don't delete the useless parts of the quoted message in the reply, too. I guess they didn't learn about the backspace key either (or the other key combinations to delete lines etc:-) I see HTML messages etc. And HTML messages should not be used either (especially those that are not even tagged correctly with the mime type and don't have the text-only copy). I don't read HTML-only emails at all, for example (not because I can't, but the chance of them having useful content is too near 0). actually what bothers me, is that in the archives there are some messages, in which every line ends with =. What is this? Any example link? It may be an issue of the mail archive sw that doesn't decode quoted-printable or some mail client that doesn't send it correctly. Also, what is the policy about replaying? To the list? Private? I already posted a question and received both a private answer and another one in the list. Do we have to keep the list volume low, and skip some answers to the list? The replies should go to the list unless they are off-topic and personal so everyone can read and learn from the answers. It seems a few people don't know how to send a reply to the list, so they will mail privately (they use the reply to author instead of the reply to list command in their email clients). lupus -- - [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian/rules [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monkeys do it better ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
[Mono-devel-list] [OT] Netiquette in the list
Hi, is there a place I can read about the rules in this list? I see a lot of messages both top and bottom quoted, I see HTML messages etc. And actually what bothers me, is that in the archives there are some messages, in which every line ends with =. What is this? Also, what is the policy about replaying? To the list? Private? I already posted a question and received both a private answer and another one in the list. Do we have to keep the list volume low, and skip some answers to the list? Thanks Sunny -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliatesid=10745t=85 ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
