On December 14, 2018 3:58:59 AM Paco Esteban paco@onna.be wrote:
So, I wanted to talk a little bit about netiquette and basic mailing list behaviour.
Thanks for bringing this up. I mentioned it a bit on irc but it's far better to have it here on the list.
A good place to start is here: https://man.sr.ht/lists.sr.ht/etiquette.md
This is one of the links I posted on irc :) I really like that write-up.
If you don't want to follow links, basically:
- post in plain text. Never, ever send html to the list.
Mail clients can be configured to do this. research it or holler in irc and someone might be able to help.
- 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.
- 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.
I'm not sure how wrapping will work from my mobile client here... sorry if it comes out too wide!
- 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)
An easy way to get a download link is to use https://ttm.sh or drop it in your ~/public_html
Another thing I'd like to add is that your reply needs to be sent to the list itself (reply all usually cuts it)
Happy listing!
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