README: Posting information

Davy Brion ralinx at pandora.be
Wed May 26 19:58:46 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 17:51, Dylan Parry wrote:
> When posting a message to this list, please remember to trim your posts!  
> Do not include the entire email to which you are replying, but only the  
> relevent article. Nothing is more annoying than having to scroll through  
> the entire contents of a previous Digest that has been quoted in a reply.

yes please! a lot of people include the parent email in its entirety
while they are only replying to one paragraph or even just a couple of
sentences.  Or if you're replying to something that was said in the
first part of the email, then don't include the second part of the email
if you don't need to.

Also, it would be nice if people could check existing replies _before_
they themselve reply to a mail.  A lot of times someone asks a question
and they get 10 replies all stating the same thing... now i know we
can't completely avoid that, but if you can already see a couple of
replies to a certain mail, please check those replies first before
sending _your_ reply.  Nobody needs to see the same answer repeated over
and over again.

Just my 2 cents





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