Hi fellow tilders !
I'm 'erxeto' at IRC, this is the email account I use the most, so I changed my subscription.
So, I wanted to talk a little bit about netiquette and basic mailing list behaviour.
I don't know many of you and I have no clue of your background, so if you find this too basic or that "insults your intelligence" please forgive me, I don't mean to be disrespectful in any way.
Mailing lists are old. Some of us have been subscribed to mailing lists for many years. What this means is that mailing lists have a basic set of rules that has been developed over the years. It works, and it makes all the "experience" more smooth.
A good place to start is here: https://man.sr.ht/lists.sr.ht/etiquette.md
If you don't want to follow links, basically:
* post in plain text. Never, ever send html to the list. Some of us use MUAs that don't play well with html. Besides, the html engine of the mail readers is really broken. (And there's other issues, this topic is huge). * don't do top posting. Please, is really annoying and disrupts the flow of the conversation. * related to the previous one, reply inline AND remove the parts of the email you're replying to that are not relevant. In other words, keep just the context that makes sense and remove the rest. That makes cleaner emails and is easier to read. * wrap lines. The link I sent says 72 columns. If you're curious, that's because a 'regular' terminal has 80 columns, and 8 chars less gives you some room for the '> ' response prefix, making the threads with nested replies more readable. * the link talks about gpg inline, I think that's less of a concern given the amount of people that actually uses gpg. I personally don't sign any email going to a mailing list, but that's personal preference. * I may add, don't send attachments to the list (or if you do, they have to be really small). Think about the people with bad internet connections or limited resources. It's better to send a link to a download site. If you do this, remember to say what it is and it's size. Something like https://foo.com/mylink (pdf, 3.5MB)
I think that's it, IMHO those are really basic things to do, and make all the difference. You may encounter some mailing lists that are really strict with this. I think that just "doing your best" is enough. No need to ban anybody ;-)
Have a nice day !