[H-GEN] the mail lists and what I'm meant to subscribe to

[Anthony Towns]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 01:33:29PM +0800, matheist76 at westnet.com.au wrote:
>            While I can not answer, at this point in time, your 
> first 3 questions I have found what may be the netiquette (AJ's word 
> not mine) email/article that you are after. 

Netiquette's got a much longer history than that, see eg:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette

It's also used in the h-gen signup text:

    Basic netiquette is expected of participants of this list. This
    includes, but is not limited to, refraining from pointless posts
    (particularly 'ME TOO'), posting a private message *not* to the list
    (watch the Reply-To header), avoiding having lines of more than 80
    characters (72 is better), avoiding cross-posting or not continuing
    to cross-post to other lists; don't annoy other denizens of the list.

      -- http://lists.humbug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/general

Up until a while ago, that post was referenced on the About/Lists page of
the Humbug website, see:

    http://web.archive.org/web/20070830104710/http://humbug.org.au/mailingLists.php
    http://web.archive.org/web/20070729122507/http://www.humbug.org.au/netiquette.php

> At the bottom it refers to news.announce.newusers. I assume that is a 
> usernet thing which is a bit before my time. If I find out anything 
> more I will pass it on to you. 

Well, it was a post from '98... Easiest current links are probably:

    http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/news/news.announce.newusers.html

    http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/posting-rules/part1/
    http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/primer/part1/
    http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/what-is/part1/
    http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/what-is/part2/
    http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/writing-style/part1/
    http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/emily-postnews/part1/

Other sources that might be of interest:

    http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855

    http://www.woodgate.org/FAQs/netiquette.html

    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
    http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct
    http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct
    http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette

Also,

> 	If you're posting a question, think about whether you really need
> 	to ask a couple of hundred other people for help first, or if you
> 	can find out the answer on your own. /usr/doc/*, www.linux.org
> 	[0], and www.altavista.digital.com all have far more time on their
> 	hands to help with queries than most of us do here. So save us
> 	for the ones that they can't answer.

altavista ftw!

Cheers,
aj

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