[BangPypers] Posting style

Anand Balachandran Pillai abpillai at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 14:36:30 CEST 2009


On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org>wrote:

> On Tuesday 20 Oct 2009 5:33:21 pm Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote:
> > > This helped me when I first ventured into mailing lists and IRC
> > > http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html<http://catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
> <http://catb.org/%7Eesr/faq
> > >s/smart-questions.html>
> >
> > +1<<21
> >
> > This needs to be compulsory reading for those who post to forums
> > especially n00bs so that they don't become lusers.
> >
> > I will add this link to welcome message of this list.
>
> once again I need to emphasise that first we need to decide whether this
> list
> will have recommended posting guidelines - else, every time anyone is
> reminded
> of it he will say 'who you to tell me how to post?'
>

 Yes. It is better to have some guidelines and being informed up front
 when joining the list than having to remind each and every person,
 "do this, do that, don't do this, don't use attachments, don't X post"
etc...



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> Kenneth Gonsalves
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