1.5 Moderation of new posters
1.6 Handling trolls and spam
1.7 How to unsubscribe
+ 1.8 I posted, now what?
2. Sending mail
2.1 Reply or New Mail
No matter what, we NEVER EVER respond to trolls or spammers on the list. If
you believe the list admin should do something particular, contact him/her
off-list. The subject will be taken care of as good as possible to prevent
- repeated offences, but responding on the list to such messages never lead to
+ repeated offenses, but responding on the list to such messages never lead to
anything good and only puts the light even more on the offender: which was
the entire purpose of it getting to the list in the first place.
You NEVER EVER email the mailing list requesting someone else to get you off
the list.
+ 1.8 I posted, now what?
+
+ If you aren't subscribed with the exact same email address that you used to
+ send the email, your post will just be silently discarded.
+
+ If you posted for the first time to the mailing list, you first need to wait
+ for an administrator to allow your email to go through. This normally
+ happens very quickly but in case we're asleep, you may have to wait a few
+ hours.
+
+ Once your email goes through it is sent out to several hundred or even
+ thousand recipients. Your email may cover an area that not that many people
+ know about or are interested in. Or possibly the person who knows about it
+ is on vacation or under a very heavy work load right now. You have to wait
+ for a response and you must not expect to get a response at all, but
+ hopefully you get an answer within a couple of days.
+
+ You do yourself and all of us a service when you include as many details as
+ possible already in your first email. Mention your operating system and
+ environment. Tell us which curl version you're using and tell us what you
+ did, what happened and what you expected would happen. Preferably, show us
+ what you did in details enough to allow others to help point out the problem
+ or repeat the same steps in their places.
+
+ Failing to include details will only delay responses and make people respond
+ and ask for the details and you have to send a follow-up email that includes
+ them.
+
+ Expect the responses to primarily help YOU debug the issue, or ask you
+ questions that can lead you or others towards a solution or explanation to
+ whatever you experience.
+
+ If you are a repeat offender to the guidelines outlined in this document,
+ chances are that people will ignore you at will and your chances to get
+ responses will greatly diminish.
+
2. Sending mail
Quote as little as possible. Just enough to provide the context you cannot
leave out. A lengthy description can be found here:
- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
+ https://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
2.7 Digest
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