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

[Alejandro Martínez]

Also, given you use Gmail, you can subscribe to the list and then
filter all of the mailing list emails so they go to a  label of their
own and make them skip the inbox.

That way you can read them nicely without them bothering your inbox
all the time :)


On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Alejandro Mery <amery at geeks.cl> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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