[ubuntu-uk] Etiquette

[Martin Fitzpatrick]

On 04/02/07, London School of Puppetry <lspinfo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 03/02/07, James Dalley <j.dalley at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> > Is there any way a list of mailing list etiquette could be sent to
> > every new member??
>
> Good idea- then I might have avoided all the faux pas. Though some of the
> points are a bit too technical for me to understand. Perhaps new members
> could be asked to send an introductory email about themselves and where they
> are coming from- then the BUT response is to send the mailing list
> etiquette. (and a note of welcome) Caroline (lsp)

Something that would help hugely I think would be if certain
individuals would take on the task of giving tips on a one-to-one
basis when people get things wrong.  A friendly email from one person
along the lines of "Can you please format your email like *this*
because of *this*" is far more productive than replying to the list.

As (very, very, very midly) irritating that weirdly formatted replying
is, getting 5 emails about that weirdly formatted email is always
worse and has hints of public humiliation about it.

Since I'm not volunteering for the task you may of course ignore this
idea at will.

Martin