[haiku] Re: Mailing list etiquette and phones
- From: Alexandre Deckner <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:24:48 +0200
Ben Allen wrote:
I don't think he was arguing againt mailing list rules, just stating
that failure to follow those rules might not be a strong enough reason
to avoid adding a good idea to a discussion.
Well in theory you're right, but a good idea can always wait an hour or
two :) The thing to note too is that many people won't spend the time to
read a discussion if it's badly formatted. Anyway, let's admit the list
is and has always been very tolerant concerning those rules, so i find
it only fair to remind them from times to times.. and note it's never
cool to play that police role :-/
On a related note, does this mailing list live on a server under our
control? I imagine that some of these breaches of etiquette (i.e.
top-posting and quoting an entire thread in a reply) could be fixed
via a server-side script.
It's on freelist.org . And i'm not sure how a script could guess what
sentence one was replying to :)
Regards,
Alex
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