Re: netiquette messages (was: fedora-test-list digest,Vol 1 #479 - 26 msgs)

[Alexander Dalloz <alexander dalloz uni-bielefeld de>]

Am Mi, den 14.01.2004 schrieb Ben Steeves um 00:29:
> On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 19:05, dsavage peaknet net wrote:
> > > O my God! This is the most evil posting I ever saw on a mailinglist. Are
> > > you mad?
> > 
> > Alexander,
> > Hopefully not mad, but just an uninformed newbie. I just sent him a note
> > off-list. Let's let him regroup and become a good netizen.
> 
> Actually, that brings up a good point: could those of you who feel
> compelled to correct people's netiquette PLEASE e-mail the offending
> person OFF-LIST?  It gets tiresome to see the same netiquette messages
> posted multiple times per day.  They do nothing but raise the noise
> level, and these lists (fedora-list and fedora-test-list) need all the
> help they can get maintaining the S/N ratio.

That's an argument Ben. I will in future inform the people by direkt
mailing and hope they do not ignore it just because it has no publicity
(that was the reason I did it on the list so far).

Regards

Alexander


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