On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Abhijit Bhabhe wrote:
Problems -
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2.. top-posting, lines too long, subject line unacceptable for some reason
Your own reply line-length is not fixed yet.
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Some solutions offered so far -
- seperate mailing lists - sorted on questions, not people - therefore,
a user sending a question should see where it belongs and post to that list.
How do you propose to sort questions to different mailing lists, it is not as easy, for example, I may have a question about LAMP deployment, I have probably done all standard configs, but certain things on my network don't work. Do I send the message to a LAMP only list or a networking list, if I am not sure where the problem lies?, there will be many questions like this specially from newbies, so it is better to have single list with suggestive subjects, let members classify things on their own. Less headache for administrators also.
- members should read the first mail which specifies the guidelines
I would really like to see how many read through that long list of guidelines, my guess is less than 20% of new members are reading the guidelines.
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hereon, i am stating my personal opinions
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just delete the mail.
I am not too happy to delete 20 out of 25 mails that I pay to download. Clue levels must increase to some decent standard.
a copy of the guidelines can be sent every month like that reminder mail
Perhaps.
guys, i echo the sentiment that this issue is taking up too much time and space - lets finish it off once and for all.
Yes please, let's us stop discussing this, we have battered this topic to its death.
best, Rajesh