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
You NEVER EVER email the mailing list requesting someone else to get you off
the list.
- 1.8 I posted, now what?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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2. Sending mail