suggestion for mailing list

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

     Dear friends,

  What's wrong with top posting?

     Take care
     Oliver

On 6/11/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> At 11:52 AM -0700 6/11/07, Les wrote:
> >Hi, everyone,
> >       I remember the welcome message from older bulletin boards, which gave
> >you some info about the board and its uses/customs/guidelines.  It seems
> >to me that we could do new posters a favor by sending them such a
> >message when they join the list.  The subject line should be something
> >like Getting the most out of fedora-list.
> >
> >       Text something like:
> >
> >       Basics:
> >  This list is meant to help you get the best from your fedora
> >installation.  People here will help you find and fix problems, guide
> >you to best practices, and generally share their knowledge with you.  In
> >return you should contribute what you learn.  As you become comfortable
> >with fedora, it is desirable to add to the information used to improve
> >and maintain the system through bugzilla (this should be a link to a
> >document describing how to setup bugzilla and how to report bugs).
>  ...
> >What do you all think?
>
> Basics should also include:
>
>     No top posting -- reply at the end or interspersed; trim parts
>         you aren't replying to.
>
>     No HTML emails -- post and reply in plain text.
>
> Perhaps it could be made shorter by being more brief about smart questios
> and providing a link to <http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html> .
>
> At some point this will probably have to be sent to the list maintainer, if
> there is any reasonable agreement that it is a good idea.  It might need to
> visit fedora-devel-list as well (or some other list?).
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Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher
Theoretical Biological Physics and Soft Statistical Mechanics
Cell Biology at UConn Health Center and Physics at Harvard
http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~oliver/