Re: subject-prefixing of ml postings (was Re: A humble request)

[Kiran Kumar <immidi_kiran@yahoo.com>]

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--- Kiran Kumar <immidi_kiran@yahoo.com> wrote:

>   I have built up some content based on the rules of
> another list that I am on (most of which are, I
> guess,
> relevant here as well). The patch for the homepage
> module of cvs is attached.

  Sorry, seems the previous one had a problem..
resending it.


=====
Regards,
Kiran Kumar Immidi

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diff -urN homepage/xml/contact.xml homepage.new/xml/contact.xml
--- homepage/xml/contact.xml	2004-01-17 18:59:07.000000000 +0530
+++ homepage.new/xml/contact.xml	2004-01-28 10:18:32.526810440 +0530
@@ -25,6 +25,54 @@
 you will minimize the burden on the project members, and thus minimize the potential delay until you will receive a reply to your inquiry.
 </para>
 
+<section id="list-rules">
+<title>Netfilter list rules</title>
+<para>
+You are strongly advised to go through these set of rules before posting to any
+of the netfilter lists.
+</para>
+<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
+
+<title>List Rules</title>
+
+<listitem>
+Subject Line <para>Make sure that your post contains a valid subject line containing a gist of your post rather than things like 'Help!!!' or even bad 'HELP ME PLEEEEEASE' </para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+Top-posts <para>Do not "top-post" (reply to a message by adding text to the top of the message instead of below), as it loses the reader and the flow of the message and can annoy other readers. </para> 
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+Overquoting <para>If you are replying to another message, quote only the portions of that message that you are specifically responding to, and insert your comments after those quotes. Do not simply quote back the entire message! Trim off everything apart from the 2-3 most relevant lines of the original message.</para>
+
+<para>In general, your reply should contain at least as much text as the amount of text you are quoting, if not more. Never quote back dozens of lines of text and simply add a single line of text to the bottom - people will *hate* you for that!</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+HTML Messages <para>HTML is not email, and email doesn't contain HTML, so please turn HTML formatting OFF in your email client. Do not use italics, colors, bold, fonts, pictures, sounds, or other HTML elements. Providing HREF (link) elements is allowed. Please use only 7-bit text when sending email to the lists.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+Message recycling <para>Do not start a New message or thread by hitting "Reply" in your mail client and changing the subject. When you do this, you mess up other participant's ability to read mail in a threaded fashion. When you mean to post a new message, use New, and when you want to reply to an existing message, hit Reply. </para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+Pseudo-legal disclaimers <para>Do not attach obnoxious pseudo-legal, nonsensical disclaimers to your messages. People on open source lists do not like to be threatened with these. If your company insists on attaching such disclaimers to messages going out to mailing lists (where, by definition, the sender has *NO* control over who gets to see the message), then either use a webmail system, or just don't post.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+Off-topic <para>Stay on-topic for the list. This isn't a good place to discuss automobiles, politics, music, or anything that is not related to Netfilter. Sometimes topics will diverge from the general discussion, but please try to keep it relevant to the list topic. Do not ask usage questions in the devel list, or vice versa</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+Message time and date <para>Please make sure the date and time on your computer is always current. When your date is set to something such as the year 2006, messages posted by you will get sorted based on that date, which may put them outside of the related month or year they belong in.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+</section>
+
 <section id="ml-announce">
 <title>The netfilter-announce mailinglist</title>
 <para>
diff -urN homepage/xml/layout.xml homepage.new/xml/layout.xml
--- homepage/xml/layout.xml	2004-01-10 03:41:52.000000000 +0530
+++ homepage.new/xml/layout.xml	2004-01-28 10:18:32.527810288 +0530
@@ -111,6 +111,10 @@
 			<tocentry page="security/2003-08-01-nat-sack.xml" filename="2003-08-01-nat-sack.html"/>
 		</tocentry>
 		<tocentry page="contact.xml" filename="contact.html">
+			<tocentry id="list-rules" href="/contact.html#list-rules">
+				<title>The netfilter mailinglist rules</title>
+				<titleabbrev>List Rules</titleabbrev>
+			</tocentry>
 			<tocentry id="toc-contact-ml-announce" href="/contact.html#ml-announce">
 				<title>The netfilter announce mailinglist</title>
 				<titleabbrev>netfilter-announce list</titleabbrev>