[Gambas-user] Gambas Mailing List Etiquette

[Christof Thalhofer]

Am 11.04.20 um 02:51 schrieb Jussi Lahtinen:

> Again, we all have different mail clients and in my case this all fits
> to one line.
> *However, the most important thing; do we really have readability
> problem in this list or is this only going to deter people from using
> the list?*

As I read hundreds of mails a day (and usually every single one in this
list), i am always glad when they are so clear that i can quickly see
what it is all about and if it concerns me at all.

I have a massive readability problem if someone posts two or three mails
with all footers quoted into one posting and puts the answer anywhere in
the middle. The longer we have the netiquette now, the less this
happens, and for me it is easy to see that the mailing list is becoming
more readable over time. This was my personal view.

We also wanted to put more information (for instance also the links to
the archive and the search engine of the list) into the footer as it was
in the beginning, but this makes reading mails even more difficult, if
the footer is quoted several times. Benoît was right to complain about
it so we had to shorten the footer:

https://lists.gambas-basic.org/pipermail/user/2019-December/068284.html

I don't think people are deterred by the fact that they should stick to
a few small rules. In a mailing list where it's about exchanging ideas,
it's always better to present those ideas as clearly and simply as
possible, so that they can be understood easily.

On the contrary, I think that a mailing list where this doesn't happen
is a more deterrent.

By the way, this has been a common problem on mailing lists for more
than 30 years (AFAICS), and further or later it leads to a discussion
like this and then to almost everyone following the rules.

:-)

Alles Gute

Christof Thalhofer

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