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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Mailist etiquette -- gentle reminder</H1>
    <B>Remco Rijnders</B> 
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    <I>Fri Sep 24 19:43:41 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 01:02:55PM -0400, Marc Par&#233; wrote:
&gt;<i> There should be a recurring reminder of the mailist and Gmane list
</I>&gt;<i> rules. There are many who are new to mailists and have never had the
</I>&gt;<i> experience in group mailist etiquette. Some people find it
</I>&gt;<i> annoying/frustrating when people top-post, quote whole passages etc.
</I>&gt;<i> But we should be happy that there is so much participation. It just
</I>&gt;<i> means that we need to every now and then send out a gentle reminder
</I>&gt;<i> of the rules. I think that the &quot;Mailist etiquette -- gentle
</I>&gt;<i> reminder&quot; should be posted every now and then by the Mageia ML
</I>&gt;<i> maintainer just to add a little formality to the message.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Mailist etiquette:
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</I>&gt;<i> - English language only please on the mailist
</I>&gt;<i> - no top posting please
</I>&gt;<i> - when answering, please quote the relevant sentences that is being replied
</I>&gt;<i> - please do not break the threads. Do a proper &quot;Reply&quot; from your
</I>&gt;<i> email agent and your email will be &quot;nested&quot; with the right
</I>&gt;<i> discussion thread.
</I>&gt;<i> - please do not hijack threads by &quot;Replying&quot; and then changing the
</I>&gt;<i> &quot;Subject&quot; line of the mail
</I>
I think it would help if these etiquette rules would be part of the
confirmation message people receive when signing up to these lists. I know
everyone is mega-utterly busy, but a few minutes here might save a lot of
time and annoyance over and over :-)

Kind regards,

Remco
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