Some more observations on list etiquette (was Comments about Linux/Ubuntu)

[Matthew East]

I'm starting a new thread about this, because I think it's important,
and is really nothing to do with the original thread.

On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 10:43 +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:

[50 lines of quoted text]

> very true

In this email, Sasha has quoted about 50 lines of text, to simply add
"very true" at the end.

An appeal to the list users: can we try and make sure that we only send
emails which are absolutely necessary to further the discussion? This
list is really high volume, and emails like that are quite heavy on the
bandwidth, many users are likely to be on modems.

A general rule: it isn't always necessary to reply to every mail in a
thread.

When there _is_ something to be added the discussion, please let's try
and cut down the amount of the quote to include only things that are
absolutely necessary, so that no bandwidth is wasted!

This isn't meant to be a personal criticism of Sasha, but recently he's
been very active on sounder so that's why I use this as an example. The
criticism isn't aimed at him personally at all, because many other users
(including myself) often do similar things, and I'd like to make this a
list-wide observation (naturally, it's also a problem on other lists
too).

Feel free to tell me to bugger off if I'm out of line.

Thanks, Matt
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