[School-GNU-Linux] Mailing list best practices..
- From: Vimal Joseph <vimaljoseph@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "schoolgnu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <schoolgnu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:27:15 +0530
Dear All,
Happy to see you all very active in asking questions and answering
queries in this mailing list. If we follow a few simple rules, we can
make this mailing lists clean and useful
1. The first and the most important thing is the Subject of the mail.
Give a meaningful subject. If you are asking a question, the subject
can be a brief description of your problem. The subject should resemble
the content of your mail. Please avoid subjects with greetings,
salutations etc.
2. Use one tag in your subject if needed:- It will be a good practice if
you tag your mail. Each mail to this group will contain one
"[schoolgnu]" tag added by the group policies. Mails which contains some
points to be shared but not directly related to the content of the group
should be tagged with [OT] or [off-topic]. If you are sharing a news
related to free software, you may use [news] tag.
3. Do a search in the mail archive before you ask a question. It may be
asked and solved before you ask. Archive is available at
//www.freelists.org/archive/schoolgnu
4. Trim down your replies:- When you reply to a thread, please spend
some time to remove unwanted contents, repeated email signatures, auto
generated content etc for high readability.
5. Do not reply to spam mails. Leave that to the List Administrators for
further action.
Your valuable suggestions and improvisations on this topic are welcome.
Also have a look at
http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf
Thanks,
~vimal
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