On Saturday 29 December 2001 15.19, wolfi wrote:
It is the fact that Nettiquette is more important than helping which made folks like Oli and me abandon our home country list and switch to the english one. So better not bring it up on this list, please.
Noone said it was more important than helping people. I don't know what happened to you guys on the german list. In the course of my trying to teach myself german I've read SL a bit, and it seems friendly enough to me, but that's not important. That is there and this is here. A few friendly pointers won't hurt anyone.
PLEASE people: don't start a new thread by hitting reply to an old message and changing the subject! It fundamentally fscks up the mailer's threading. It makes it very difficult to search for old messages/threads. I'm left with my mailer's search function! Please!
If someone starts a new thread with replying to an old mail and changing the subject, we should kindly explain to this person, that this disturbs the threaded view which a good email client allows you to have. Maybe this person does not even know about threaded views.
Sure, but look at the list over the past, say, month or so. It's just too many to give individual 'nudges'. A centrally posted "good manners" web page, or a mail sent out when you register with a subject like READ ME!!! IMPORTANT!!!!! would perhaps be noticed (yes, I believe in santa claus :)
P.S.: What is in such a Nettiquette is either very basic and needn't be explained to a member of the human race _once_a_week_ from the very beginning (maybe some things once in life) or is kind of brainwash which we should refrain from (IMHO)
No brainwashing here. I just want my mail threads nicely organized. replying by creating a new mail is also annoying, btw. It will create a new "root" and it just looks ugly! regards Anders