How to behave yourself on mailing lists
Era Eriksson (reriksso@cc.helsinki.fi)
Sat, 30 Mar 1996 17:53:15 +0200
I [try to] maintain a FAQ for a mailing list but I find it rather
frustrating to have to devote lots of time and effort and, above all,
space to explaining MIME encoding, Good Times viruses, why not to
quote entire messages, how to search things using Archie and WWW
search engines, where to upload stuff instead of attaching binaries to
the list, how to pick a good Subject line for your posting, what
trolling is and why you should not swallow it ... etc ad inf.
The "Welcome to Usenet" postings explain some of this, to some
extent, but I really need something that is more appropriate for a
mailing list.
So: Does anybody have a pointer to good, succinct, easy-to-read,
comprehensive, whole-wheat geothermal document (ideally a WWW page) I
could just link in?
Fat chance.
Does anybody want to co-author one?
/* era */
Oh, in case you're interested, here's an old version of my FAQ
(QuarkXPress; DTP software for Mac/PC ... the FAQ is due for a revamp
since Christmas! Sigh):
<http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/quark/mini-faq.txt>
--
See <http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/> for mantra, disclaimer, etc.
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