Hi all. I hate to have to do this, but it seems like it's time for the "friendly reminder" again. While there are only two posting guidelines for the LinuxChix lists ( 1. Be Friendly, 2. Be Helpful ), there are some more general guidelines that should be followed when posting to a mailing list. 1. Plain Text Only. This means: no HTML-format. If you have the option to change the colours of your fonts, chances are that you're sending in HTML. Unfortunately, many people read their email using clients that will not display HTML properly, so your message ends up being displayed along with the HTML tags. This makes it basically unreadable, and most people will delete your message without even bothering to try to read it. So: Plain Text Email only. If you don't know how to send in plain text only, please refer to the documentation that came with your email client. Until you have switched to plain text, please refrain from sending to the LinuxChix mailing lists. Thanks. 2. Stay On Topic. There have been some recent comments that the lists are drifting off topic. This is to be avoided. If you're not sure which list is for which topic, please refer to the LinuxChix Mailing List information page here: http://www.linuxchix.org/docs/listinfo.html If you're not sure which list you should be posting to, send it to the "grrltalk" list, and if it's more appropriate for a different list, someone will likely move the discussion to the proper list. 3. Prune Your Responses It's really easy to just hit "reply" type in a couple of lines, then hit "send", but this is actually considered rude, especially if you're responding to a longer post. When sending a response, cut down the amount of text you are quoting from the original message. You should only have to leave a line or two to set up the context for your response. If people need to refer to the other message to jog their memories a bit more, that's okay -- if they don't have a copy of the original message, there are archives of all the lists available. Under most circumstances a few lines will be sufficient to remind people about the context of your response. There are times when it is appropriate to quote larger amounts of text, but these are relatively rare. Pruning your posts saves on the amount of scrolling people have to do, on the amount of data to be downloaded, and on the size of the archives. Many people, seeing a message that is mostly quoted text, will simply delete your message without bothering to sift through it looking for your response. Trust me, pruning is better than not pruning. Okay. I think that's covered the most recent complaints. If anyone else would like to complain about something, feel free to email me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at any time. :) Thanks! Have fun! I'm going to bed now :> - deb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
