On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 00:32 +0200, Sven Lankes wrote: > Hi, > > despite the occasional flamewar and useless argumentation the fedora- > mailinglist (and especially the high-traffic 'devel' list) I find that > the mailinglist is one of the more pleasant FLOSS related mailinglist to > read. This probably because of the fact that there are guidelines and > that people not following them receive friendly, off-list reminders. > > (see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines ) > > Smartphones seem to be changing this and the number of full-quote, > top-post emails is increasing steadily. > > This annoys me a lot (yeah right - I'm one of those people who're always > complaining about everything). > > I don't think that the fact that smartphone-clients are incapable of > creating email-replies that follow our rules warrants putting a footer > in ones mail stating "Please excuse me breaking the rules, but I have to > because of the contstraints of the device I'm using". > > I would like to add something similar to the following to the "If You > Are Replying to a Message" part in the wiki: > > The fact that you're sending the email from a smartphone or similar > device doesn't invalidate those guidelines. Please consider sending > the reply at a later time when you have access to your regular > email system or send a privat reply instead. > > Opinions? FWIW, I have a phone which can only top post and so I refrain from posting to lists with it. I think in general if it's not something really urgent you can just wait till later to write it, and if it's really urgent, reply off-list or remove the quoted text. (mumble, grumble, this is what happens when you let normal people on the internet, grumble, mumble...) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
