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Please observe the following commonly accepted guidelines when
posting to PROXIMITY mailing lists:
- Be respectful of the time and feelings of others. Reply to posts
with courtesy and tolerance—everyone was once a newbie. Clarity of
expression, concise and on-point postings, and correct spelling and
grammar are always appreciated.
- Please use plain-text English. Don't post in HTML format.
- When asking for help or advice, remember to include enough
information for meaningful responses. List members are valuable
resources that should be consulted with care. They are not Google or
free programmers! Once you have investigated the obvious, then by all
means ask.
- When following up a post, please think before you quote. Since
everybody else on the list also received the original post, don't
quote it entirely. Quote only the points that are really needed to
understand your follow up. Make sure the quoted part is recognizable
as such, by ensuring each quoted line starts with a > (or more, in
cases of multi-level quoting). Please don't quote signatures, entire
code examples, or entire posts. Be considerate of the time and disk
storage of others.
- Also, please reply after the quoted
text, not before it (as per RFC 1855). It's
confusing to see a reply before the quoted context. Stick to the
subject of the original post or change the subject line to match the
new focus.
- Please don't have long, inflammatory, cute, controversial, or
offensive signatures in your postings (see RFC 1855). The best bet
is to avoid using a signature altogether. If you feel you must include
a signature, the rule of thumb is no more than 4 lines of 80
characters each.
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