[Ilugc] [Reminder] mailing list guidelines
- From: ashwin.chn@xxxxxxxxx (ashwin kesavan)
- Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 15:11:00 +0000 (UTC)
This is the monthly reminder mail to ilugc's to remind them of guidelines
to follow while posting on ilugc (found at http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-
guidelines/ ). New members are requested to go through the following page
also for better communication at ilugc http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-
guidelines/mailing-list-etiquette/
Mailing List Guidelines
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1. English is the medium of communication in this mailing list, so use
only english in the mailing list. For people wanting to expressing
themselves in Tamil, ILUGC?s Tamil mailing list exist. For joining ILUGC
Tamil:
http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc.tamil
2. Use a proper subject line.
3. Do not troll in the mailing list
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
4. Use [OT] for off-topic, non-technical discussions. But, don?t misuse
this to start flame wars or to troll in the mailing list.
5. Do not top-post:
Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting
Example of a top-post:
Why is top-posting
such a bad thing?
Top-posting.
What is the most
annoying thing in e-mail?
Use interleaved, trimmed posting
Hi,
? Foo Bar wrote:
could design good
application forms using tex
Sure.
CTAN doesn?t seem to give me anything.
Check this example (Observing Time Application Form):
http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/observing/applicationForms.php
?
Bar Foo
6. Do not over-quote:
Example of an over-quote:
On Friday you said
blah blah blah
On Saturday you said
foo foo foo
On Sunday you said
foobar
7. Do not post HTML messages
8. Do not recycle messages
9. Do not send attachments
10. Do not attach obnoxious, nonsensical legal disclaimers. If your
company uses disclaimers, don?t use your company ID for the mailing list.
11. Do not reply to a digest. (If you are in digest mode and want to
reply to a post use ILUGC Gmane blog interface.
Link:
http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.ilugc
12. Search for answers for your questions/problems in any search engine
before posting your query to the mailing list.
13. Do not post messages in all capital letters. Mails in CAPS is
considered rude and is similar to shouting during a conversation.
14. Following these guidelines could be helpful
http://people.debian.org/~enrico/dcg/
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
15. Don?t send season?s greetings or birthday or social networking site
invites to the group. Its not mailing list etiquette.
We must use the above guidelines to maintain better readability, proper
archives, efficient bandwidth usage.
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with regards,
ashwin
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