From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 27 14:38:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com [66.66.72.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CCD137B405 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:38:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 760DB901A03; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:29:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:29:35 -0500 From: mpd To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email Etiquette on this list Message-ID: <20011127172935.A33300@rit.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from scott@gerhardt-it.com on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 03:52:51PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 03:52:51PM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > Is there a preferred message protocol for responding to this list? > I think it would be helpful is there was some sort of guidling for composing > and replying to messages. > > > I typically do the following protocol for messages, suggestions welcome: > > - Use a meaningful subject line i wish people were born with the knowledge of this one. emails to this list with no subject get deleted immediately on this end. > > - Replies are posted at the _TOP_ of the message; saves scrolling when > following a long thread and keeps everything is reverse chronological order. should we be advocating top-posting here? i for one will never do this. scrolling shouldn't be necessary unless all of the information is 0, or someone hasn't cut out the non-important bits. > > - Compose in question/answer format and avoid long philosophical discussion > where possible or take the long winded disscussions off the list. > > - Use white space to make messages more legible. > > - Trim off anything that does not pertain to the current message. sounds good. > > > - Scott > also, max line length of 72 or so chars to allow several levels of indenting for replies. but actually enforcing rules like that is probably too draconian for this list. mike -- ___________________________________________________________ I'm more quotable than Mark Twain and 0 combined. - me To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message