On 10/25/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote:
Certainly this and quoting raw email addresses could be offered as
guidelines in <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.  Care to offer a
patch

The "submitting a patch" guidelines seem to refer to program
patches... since this is only an HTML update, here it is.

-Jason
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> <a name="etiquette">
> <li><p>When you respond to a report, you must remember to <em>include
> only what is relevant</em>.</p>
> 
> <p>The contents of the original message or of any other responses are not 
> sacred.  
> Do not hesitate to trim out the extraneous parts as the full messages will 
> still be 
> available as either previously received emails or permantently in the 
> archives.<br>
> 
> <em>Avoid <a href="http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU";>TOFU</a> entirely</em>.
> Putting your replies at the top of the message instead of inline where 
> appropriate and 
> leaving every single bit of the original message and all of the other replies 
> and 
> observations below makes for a very untidy archive. As was arleady mentioned, 
> the 
> original messages are still available.  We don't need you wasting space and 
> bandwidth 
> because you couldn't be bothered to hit the DEL key a few times.</p>
> 
> <p>In addition, please observe <a 
> href="http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR";>PCYMTNQREAIYR</a>
> as we are not in the habit of feeding Spam bots.</p></li>
> 
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