[xubuntu-users] Mailing list guidelines for *Buntus - Was: Can't install anything it seems???

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 20:50:34 -0500, Roger Broseus wrote:
> You might try apt-get update

That's a good advice, but Roger, next time please consider to trim your
post, to avoid top posting and not to send multipart/mixed, but instead
plain text.

Not following the guidelines happens often on Xubuntu, Kubuntu and
Ubuntu Studio mailing lists. On most other mailing lists this doesn't
happen.

A summary of
http://community.ubuntu.com/contribute/support/mailinglists/ :

"[snip] Write your email underneath the email which you are replying to
 [snip] remove any unnecessary text
 [snip] Avoid sending emails in HTML format
 [snip] When replying to messages, use [snip] Reply To List function
 [snip] When starting a new subject, do not reply to a previous email
 [snip] Replying to digest emails breaks the threading [1]
 [snip]"

Text should be wrapped after around 72 chars, "endless" lines are only
welcome, when posting code.

If an issue is solved, then it's common practise to add '[solved]' to
the subject.

[1] Solvable by using MIME Digest
    http://www.list.org/mailman-member/node28.html