[Arm-netbook] netiquette (Was: Re: OLIMEX A10 board)

[Alejandro Mery]

Hi Ian,

On 26/05/12 02:06, moo cow wrote:
> Alejandro,
>
> hi
>
> I'm always happy to comply with a reasonable request politely made ;-)

good :) please take this reply in the same politely and helpful tone 
even when it won't be that obvious ^_^


> I have to confess at the moment i end up looking this mail-list in a
> browser and any interesting article i (apart from hopefully just this
> time) end up pasting the thread title and content in to gmail, adding
> my comment below and emailing it off.

that might be confortable to you, but it's very disrespectful for the 
rest of the people on this (and any) mailing list.

> I have to confess the closest i have come to seeing a flat email list
> used for collaborative development are forums (i've always liked
> stickies as a great place for concise rules)

so think of you "paste the thread title and content into gmail" like 
starting a new "topic" every single time. it destroys the structure and 
destroys the timeline.


> ... professionally I'm
> too used to having a structure defined within an application and a set
> of rules concisely documented and living on the application.

it is defined within the email applications, it's called the "reply" 
button ;-)

as for "rules" you can read RFC1855 (Netiquette Guidelines) 
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855>

as for how to write after hitting reply, for read this short FAQ 
<http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html>, and if you want a larger 
explaination in wikipedia about the posting styles 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style>.


> If you can suggest a more efficient way of interacting with the mail
> list I'm happy to give it a spin, likewise if you can suggest a link
> to a CONCISE  non "tin foil hat" etiquette applicable to this mail
> list I'm happy to give it a read ...

the short answer is: subscribe the list and use reply for replies and 
compose for new topics.

in the case you are subscribed but set the list to not send you all 
mails but a digest, you use gmame 
<http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm>. see 
<http://gmane.org/post.php> for instructions about how to post from there.