RE: Re: Disclaimers in Email Sigs

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> From: mingw-msys-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:mingw-msys-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> On Behalf Of 
> Angus Leeming
> Sent: mardi 3 janvier 2006 17:31
> To: mingw-msys-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Mingw-msys] Re: Disclaimers in Email Sigs
> 
> Keith MARSHALL wrote:
> 
> > Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> >> I did not mean to cause any offence by my signature. As 
> you suggest, 

You didn't offend me either, but it raised a point:
A long time ago (in a galaxy far away ;-), when you subscribed to a list you
would receive an email with the FAQ of what to do and especially what not to
do. And for newsgroups, a monthly FAQ would be posted.
Would it be possible to send this when subscribing to a list ? Apart from
the technical point, everybody has to be subscribed to send to list, so
everybody will be suspected to have read the FAQ.

> >> it is a corporate policy that requires the signature be 
> appended by 
> >> default to all emails; however it is enforced on the 
> client and so I 
> >> do have the capability to remove it manually.
> > 
> > Oh.  I didn't take offence; apologies if my response gave that 
> > impression.
> > 
> > I have recently seen similar criticism of this practice on another 
> > list -- can't remember which one.  As Julien has noted, 
> such content 
> > really is inappropriate for list mail, and does tend to accumulate 
> > clutter in the list archives, particularly if it isn't cut 
> from follow 
> > up postings.

Few people are now aware of those "do and don't's". I'll remind some these
for goodness sake (Keith stated some):
- Avoid top replies. People read top to bottom, it makes more sense to read
an answer after a question, this isn't Jeopardy  !
- Write well, or at least to the best of your abilities. That means NO CAPS
and use appropriate ponctuation. Avoid abbreviations except "valid" ones
("eg", "ie", "abbr.") and commonly accepted ones ("POV", "IMHO", "RTFM")
- Snip out passages that are irrelevant in your reply, but do mark that such
a passage was cut out.
- Snip out all signatures, they are always irrelevant. Avoid signatures, and
especially 20 lines one and ascii art, unless signature is relevant to the
list.
- Avoid x-posting (cross-posting), some consider that spamming and there's
more chances that it'll be detected as such.
- Don't spam ! Get moderators or admin's POV (point of view) on this before
sending out "spam" type emails.
- Use the subject line accordingly. Be concise and clear to the point. (bad
subject: "Help me!"; good subject:"Help, declspec(dllerror) error"
- Remember that behind an email there is always a human... Respect them as
you would like to be respected.
- No HTML/pictures in posts, no attachments unless stated otherwise.

I'm sure there's more than just that, but that's all I can remember.

> > 
> > It's one of those little irritations which, along with top-posting, 
> > and HTML content, I would prefer not to see on this list, 
> if it can be 
> > avoided.
> 
> If you're really bothered by such things, perhaps you might 
> get the soureforge ml admins to run posts to the list through 
> a procmailrc file.
> Eg:
<snip code>
> would be rather nice ;-)
> Angus

I don't think that SF admins control the lists, I think that project admins
have control over it via the admin section of the project. But then again, I
don't know how much control they might have. Keith will be able to answer
this.

Julien



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