test - why it "FAILED"

[Lew Bloch]

>Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 17:16:32 +0500
>From: Muhammad Rizwan <rizwan at nixpanel.com>
>Subject: Re: test
>
>why this is failed, a im already subscribed to this list...
>
>On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 16:22, Lokrin wrote:
>  
>
>>Muhammad Rizwan wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>test
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>  FAILED
>>
It failed because you sent a message to the list that neither requested 
nor offered assistance.

I believe the "FAILED" answer was a gentle, humorous hint to alert you 
to that fact.  No one wants to hurt anyone's feelings, but messages like 
that "test" are just spam on the list and one should avoid sending them.

You share the list with everyone. Please follow standard list etiquette, 
including not spamming the list, bottom posting rather than top posting, 
making your subject line specific, quoting only relevant parts of the 
original message(s) (rather than the whole thread or, worse, the whole 
message digest), sending in plain text rather than HTML, and so forth.

All these conventions are in service of making the list useful and easy 
for everyone.