OT : Mailing list etiquette / RTFM

Marco Benton - BOFH marco at XSSNET.COM
Mon Dec 13 16:12:59 GMT 2004


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Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions wrote:

| Just my usual rant: <monthly rant> - please don't post HTML emails.
| They may seem appropriate for marketing but they are not
| appropriate for a technical mailing list.
|
| - please don't put in 40 line disclaimers. We aren't going to read
| them and as you are posting to a public mailing list they are a
| kind of pointless
|
| - when replying to previous emails try "snipping". There's no point
| in reposting several hundred lines of logs etc., to simply say two
| words
|
| - Subject lines serve a purpose. Please use them and DO NOT hijack
| threads.


and i want to reiterate "HIJACKING" threads!  that should be in BOLD
and underlined.


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