From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: List etiquette.
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:40:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1051090804.1989.42.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1051089356.1989.29.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 10:15, David Woodhouse wrote:
> I've recently found myself having to inspect and reject a lot of crap
> which the list filters have caught, so it's time to rant about it a
> little... :)
>
> Please read http://www.infradead.org/~dwmw2/email.html
>
> In particular, please ensure that you use a sensible mail reader which
> inserts References: and/or In-Reply-To: headers such that threading
> works correctly. Please ensure that you do not try to start a new thread
> by just replying to an existing list message and changing the subject,
> for similar reasons. And don't send HTML.
... and don't send stupid unenforceable disclaimers which achieve
nothing but to show the world how clueless your company legal department
is, and don't top-post, and don't set up broken autoresponders which
reply to anywhere other than the SMTP reverse-path.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-23 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-23 9:15 List etiquette David Woodhouse
2003-04-23 9:40 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2003-04-23 20:40 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-23 20:51 ` Russ Dill
2003-04-23 21:05 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-24 14:47 ` Grant Edwards
2003-04-24 15:20 ` Jörn Engel
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