Hi :) Errr, there doesn't seem to be a question to answer in this thread. I suppose "acceptable etiquette" just about covers it. the main points are 1. Try to keep questions on-list. If you go off-list then people may well not respond and there are many reasons why not which have nothing to do with rudeness. When you go off-list people may feel obliged to answer but they may not be able to so you increase their stress level. It's a bit like going round to someone's house uninvited and just walking in through their back-door after getting the key from under their door-mat. It is spam and there are laws against it. If the post is on-list then if one person is too busy or unable to help then there are other people and hopefully one of them can answer.
2. If you had a chat over coffee with a close friend would you tape-record it and then find a radio station to broadcast it? I think if you tape-record a conversation then you are legally obliged to ask the person if it's ok before you do so. Currently in England there is a big court-case about "phone hacking". Similarly if you take private emails and then publish them publicly then it's just plain rude. Of course any email you write could easily end up going public so it's wise to take care to avoid saying anything "naughty" that could get you in trouble. Summary. Personally i think Anne didn't quite realise the implications of what she was doing. The Users List is a pretty friendly place so it's easy to make some wrong assumptions. Even people that seem to hate each other have common interests and similar values. However, i can totally understand why the other person was getting annoyed. His private emails, written at a highly stressful time, will now be publicly available for anyone in the world to read at any time. Luckily everything that was in his publicly printed private emails just show him as a reasonable and fair person doing his best to help. In trying to help he put his own future career at risk by not focusing on revision for exams. So, i don't think anyone behaved really badly deliberately but a bit more consideration of others would be nice. Also ignore the lists and get on with your own life when you need to! It's not really selfish to just ignore your emails for a few weeks or to selectively answer just the ones you want. If there is a cry for help and you don't answer they can copy&paste it to someone else. If you cry for help, especially in a personal email, then you have to accept that the other person may not be able to respond despite wanting to. Regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/attempting-to-find-an-answer-and-instead-tp4011130p4012169.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted