From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 27 14:58:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA7D37B417 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:58:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25DCD51D; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:58:09 -0900 (AKST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: "Scott Gerhardt" , "FreeBSD" Subject: Re: Email Etiquette on this list Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:58:08 -0900 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20011127225809.25DCD51D@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> 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 Tuesday 27 November 2001 12:52 pm, 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 > > - Replies are posted at the _TOP_ of the message; saves scrolling when > following a long thread and keeps everything is reverse chronological > order. > > - 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. > > > - Scott > From Greg Lehey: How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message