On 7 August 2010 08:14, Joe O'Dell <joseph.od...@googlemail.com> wrote: > For reference, for anyone that is actually bothered by mailing list > etiquette, here is the Ubuntu Mailing List > Guidelines: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists
Which says... ---quote--- "Proper quoting: Proper quoting is very important on mailing lists, to ensure that it is easy to follow the conversation. There are four fundamental rules: * When replying to an email, ensure that the email which you are replying to is indented with a symbol such as > or | (this is usually done from the preferences of your email client - most should do this by default). * When quoting, attribute the quoted text to the person who wrote it (again, most email clients will do this by default). Be careful to attribute the correct text to the correct person. * Write your email underneath the email which you are replying to. * Tailor your reply to fit the text which you are replying to. Do not quote the whole of the previous email - remove any unnecessary text. To avoid confusion, it's often a good idea to replace removed text with a brief indication that something has been removed, like [snip]." ---end quote--- In other words, the Ubuntu Mailing List Guidelines specifically state what people should be doing. And we've now had one person do it several times this morning (and apologise for it in the same post) and another deliberately say "I can't be bothered to cut from this second window on my Android phone, so I bet you'll get top posting" which (of course) we did. Can't we police this a little? As it's starting to annoy me... And the PROBLEM is that when you let guidelines be ignored 90% of the time then "everybody jumps on the bandwagon" and things will get much worse for those who don't want e-mails 200 lines long where only the first 20 words are relevant. And a "quiet private e-mail" wouldn't have initiated a discussion, which is what I wanted to do. Because it's not just Neil Greenwood who does it... David Jones just illustrated this, with a particularly "wind up" e-mail where he top posted loads and loads of stuff "because he could" -- that's not good, is it? Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/