[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion - messages from the forum

Tue Jun 14 16:42:16 CEST 2011

On 06/14/2011 10:22 AM, Lee Forest wrote:
+> On 06/14/2011 10:03 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
+>> That's not caused by an ML, it's caused by people being lazy and
+>> quoting the entire message to which they're replying, which is a
+>> breach of netiquette.  As is top-posting :-)
+> Android mail does that by default.
+So does Thunderbird.  That's no reason to not prune the quote.
+
+> But that just proves my other point.
+> Half the time these replies complaining about top posting, lazyness, or
+> 'netiquette' are being shot back instead of useful respones.
+
+Well, aside from the fact that nobody here "owes" you a reply, and that 
+you're lucky to get one at all if you abuse the rules of the ML, forums 
+use considerably more system resource than text-based MLs as regards 
+footprint of the servers and clients and bandwidth.  
+Unnecessarily-quoted text is only a resource problem to archiving 
+services, and if you're not one you don't get to complain.
+
+You don't have to receive emails to be registered on most MLs.  You can 
+register, which allows you to post to the ML, and opt to receive no mail 
+from the list, then use the archives to read what you want.
+
+> Don't count on the users to use
+> 'netiquette' because its been long proven that 'common sense is not all
+> that common', and its by definition 'insane' to expect everyone to use
+> it. Because it will always be a problem with some new users who are new
+> to mailing lists.
+
+Nobody here is "counting" on anything.  People who don't bother to 
+follow netiquette will generally just be ignored after the first few 
+violations, which doesn't bother the rest of us a bit.
+