[Physics] Mailman - List Member Manual and some guidelines

[Arend Lammertink]

Hello all,

Some of you are new to using mailing lists. There is a "member manual"
for the mailing list software this list uses here:

http://www.list.org/mailman-member/

Further, I found a nice page with some further guidelines here, which
I copied below.  Don't worry if you don't get everything right all the
time. The basic idea is to be polite and to keep your posts to the
point and "on topic" and "on subject" as much as possible.  For
instance, if a discussion about "bananas" turns into a discussion
about "fruit flies", you can change the subject of your post to
reflect that change.

In gmail, after you click "reply", there is a little triangle on top
of the edit window. If you click that, there is an option "edit
subject", which you can use for that purpose.


https://www.tizen.org/community/guidelines/mailing-list-guidelines

Mailing List Guidelines

Remember, when you post to a community mailing list, you are, in
effect, asking a large group of people to give you some of their time
and attention - to download your message, read it, and potentially
reply to it. It is simply polite to make sure your message is relevant
to as many of the people receiving the message as possible. All of the
guidelines below stem from this basic principle.

Please also review our Community Guidelines document for additional
guidelines and consequences associated with violating any of our
guidelines.

Search First

Believe it or not, your question might not be new. Do a thorough
search of the mailing list archives to see if it has been answered
before.
You waste everyone's time if you post repeat questions.

Post on the Right List

Visit our mailing list page and review the descriptions of each list
before deciding where to post your question.

Keep It Short

Remember that thousands of copies of your message will exist in mailboxes:

Keep your messages as short as possible.

Avoid including log output (select only the most relevant lines, or
place the log on a website or in a pastebin, instead)

Don't excessively quote previous messages in the thread (trim the
quoted text down to only the most recent/relevant messages).

Use Proper Posting Style

No HTML or Rich Text: Set your mailer to send only plain text messages
to avoid getting caught in our spam filters.

Do not top post: Top posting is replying to a message on "top" of the
quoted text of the previous correspondence. This is highly unwanted in
mailing lists because it increases the size of the daily digests and
is highly confusing and incoherent. By default, most email clients top
post.

Please remove the irrelevant part of the previous communication (in
case of more than a single correspondence) and use bottom, interleaved
posting.

Using interleaved posting: Bottom, interleaved posting is replying to
the relevant parts of the previous correspondence just below the
block(s) of sentences. For a comment to another block of sentences of
the same quoted text, you should move below that relevant block again.
Do not reply below the whole of the quoted text. Also, remove any
irrelevant text.

Use links: Please provide URLs to articles wherever possible. Avoid
cutting and pasting whole articles, especially considering the fact
that not everyone may be interested.

Don't include attached files: Instead of including attached files,
please upload your file a server and post a link to the file from your
email message.

Do Not Hijack Threads

Post new questions or new topics as new threads (new email message).
Please do not reply to a random thread with a new question or start an
unrelated topic of conversation in an existing thread. This creates
confusion and makes it much less likely that you will get a response.

Do Not Cross Post

Avoid posting to multiple lists simultaneously. Pick a mailing list
that is most suitable for your post and just use that. cc'ing multiple
lists should be avoided.

Subscribers Only

Only subscribers can post to our mailing lists. If you would like to
contribute to our mailing lists, we think it is only fair that you be
a subscriber.

Note: If you want to participate only occasionally, you can subscribe
to a list and set your email options to digest or no mail and read the
web archives when you want to catch up.

Recipients

Always reply to the mailing list (not the individual) when answering
questions. In many cases, one person will post the question and
several others will silently wait to see the answer on the list. This
also helps avoid repeat questions because others can search the
mailing list to get answers.

Do not include more than 10 other recipients in the To: or CC: fields
when you post to the mailing list. This triggers the spam filter, and
your message will most likely be discarded by the mailing list
software.

Always group-reply to a message (minding the less than 10 other
recipients rule, above). Some of the email recipients might not be
subscribed, might have turned off email delivery, or may read list
messages with lower priority than messages addressed to them directly.
For the same reasons, it is advisable to add relevant people to the
recipient list explicitly.

Credit to the Fedora Mailing List Guidelines as a starting point under
the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.