Re: Netiquette for newbies

Last Monday 29 November 2004 21:45, Michael Anderson was like:
> I'm a noob, and would very grateful for a little edification in regard
> to general mailing-list practice. Perhaps a bored guru could slap
> something together and post it...
>  I'm also very curious as to how to set up a mail client to display by
> thread - anybody do this with Evolution?

Well, you passed the first test with flying colours!

I generally recommend:
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
as a general guide. I think we're fairly forgiving of unskilful postings on 
this list and generally find it useful if people ask awkward questions, 
especially when we do have a good answer for it. Just be aware that everyone 
is giving of their free time, has busy schedules and may not know all the 
answers all the time and you'll probably get it right.

You can generally judge the quality of your questions by the quality of your 
responses. Apart from that, reading is good and Google is your friend[*] ;-)

cheers

tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk

[*] How I hate this phrase!