List etiquette.

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 10:15, David Woodhouse wrote:
> I've recently found myself having to inspect and reject a lot of crap
> which the list filters have caught, so it's time to rant about it a
> little... :)
> 
> Please read http://www.infradead.org/~dwmw2/email.html
> 
> In particular, please ensure that you use a sensible mail reader which
> inserts References: and/or In-Reply-To: headers such that threading
> works correctly. Please ensure that you do not try to start a new thread
> by just replying to an existing list message and changing the subject,
> for similar reasons. And don't send HTML.

... and don't send stupid unenforceable disclaimers which achieve
nothing but to show the world how clueless your company legal department
is, and don't top-post, and don't set up broken autoresponders which
reply to anywhere other than the SMTP reverse-path.


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dwmw2