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Postings from June 2001
Mark Folse [markfolse@rocketmail.com] quoth: *>--- Eduard Grinvald <eg344@nyu.edu> wrote: *>> Umm, let's get back to perl, please... Etiquette is nice, but is *>> hardly the point of this list. Perhaps not, but making email easy to read and reply to is certainly a good goal to have. Lotus and MS and other MUAs don't come configured to wrap or quote properly for easy reading outside of that client so it is helpful to point this out to those who may not be aware of it. The easier your email is to read, the more likely it will get a reply and/or an answer. In large groups of people etiquette is essential for keeping some semblance of civility. With several hundred email a day, good email etiquette is essential to helping people read through them without giving up and killing the thread or leaving the list. It's a nit I'll continue to pick on as 98% of the other Perl lists are not at all tolerant of this sort of email. *>I think gentle etiquette reminders are fine, if they don't begin to bog *>down the list. Perhaps a short list etiquette mailing once a week or so *>for new users, similar to FAQ postings, would be in order. Not a bad idea but I don't much like rules since people like to go out of their way to break them and seemingly FAQs are the last thing people read :) e.