From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 26 20:12: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8199237B71A for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 20:12:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2R499H10670; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 23:09:09 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3AC01346.88BB887F@iowna.com> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 23:12:54 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Hesford Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Mailing List Suggestions: Addendum References: <20010326182837.B4218@cec.wustl.edu> <20010326183359.A4331@cec.wustl.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is excellent advice, but I think it's already covered by Greg's weekly postings (and the FAQ) Never hurts to be reminded, though. -Bill Andrew Hesford wrote: > > I've forgotten one more important guideline... plus this is just proof > that I follow my own. :p > > 8. Make sure the subject of your message is directly related to the > message. ABSOLUTELY no blank subjects, and no subjects that consist of > "Hello!" or "FreeBSD Problem". Provide a concise description of the > problem. In addition, replies should contain the subject of the original > message, with "Re: " prepended. This allows mail clients like mutt to > sort the message according to the thread it belongs to, even if the > In-Reply-To header is missing. If the reader would benefit from an > enhanced subject, please include the original subject before the > additional text, with some type of separator. > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:28:37PM -0600, Andrew Hesford wrote: > > I've been following freebsd-questions for a few weeks now. I have begun > > to notice certain recurring message formats. It occurs to me that > > -questions might be a bit cleaner and easier to follow if we all follow > > a few guidelines: > -- > Andrew Hesford > ajh3@chmod.ath.cx > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message