On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, David W. Aquilina wrote:
You may also wish to spend a short amount of time on what's considered
acceptable and desireable behavior on the net. For better or worse, Linux users
tend to be more sensitive to such things as, for example, HTML e-mail. As it so
happens, your most recent message is HTML and looks like this in my mail reader
of choice:
http://starkindler.us/temp/html-email.jpeg
While it's certainly possible to manually parse all that, many aren't going to
think it's worthwhile doing so and will ignore your message.
If you're going to recommend your students utilize forums/IRC channels/mailing
lists/etc for help, I'd strongly suggest having them read
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html as well.
kind regards,
Another detailed list of email etiquette and policies that I like is the
policies page for the webdesign-L list.
http://webdesign-l.com/policies/
Clicking the "Explain" links to the right of each provides more
information. For example, the Explain section for "Messages must be plain
ASCII text only, with no HTML formatting" includes three links to how to
configure various email clients to do so.
regards,
Steve / Badger
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