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diff --git a/docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE b/docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE index 2d54e0a4b..5cad67fea 100644 --- a/docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE +++ b/docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE 2.5 HTML is not for mails 2.6 Quoting 2.7 Digest - 2.8 Please Tell Us How You Solved The Problem! + 2.8 Please Tell Us How You Solved The Problem ============================================================================== @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE please use the one or the ones that suit you the most. Each mailing list has hundreds up to thousands of readers, meaning that each - mail sent will be received and read by a large number of people. People + mail sent will be received and read by a large number of people. People from various cultures, regions, religions and continents. 1.2 Netiquette @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE anything good and only puts the light even more on the offender: which was the entire purpose of it getting sent to the list in the first place. - Do not feed the trolls! + Do not feed the trolls. 1.7 How to unsubscribe @@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE 1.8 I posted, now what? - If you are not subscribed with the exact same email address that you used to - send the email, your post will just be silently discarded. + If you are not subscribed with the same email address that you used to send + the email, your post will just be silently discarded. If you posted for the first time to the mailing list, you first need to wait for an administrator to allow your email to go through (moderated). This @@ -138,18 +138,18 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE few hours. Once your email goes through it is sent out to several hundred or even - thousands of recipients. Your email may cover an area that not that many + thousands of recipients. Your email may cover an area that not that many people know about or are interested in. Or possibly the person who knows about it is on vacation or under a heavy work load right now. You may have - to wait for a response and you should not expect to get a response at all, - but hopefully you get an answer within a couple of days. + to wait for a response and you should not expect to get a response at all. + Ideally, you get an answer within a couple of days. You do yourself and all of us a service when you include as many details as possible already in your first email. Mention your operating system and environment. Tell us which curl version you are using and tell us what you did, what happened and what you expected would happen. Preferably, show us - what you did with details enough to allow others to help point out the problem - or repeat the same steps in their locations. + what you did with details enough to allow others to help point out the + problem or repeat the steps in their locations. Failing to include details will only delay responses and make people respond and ask for more details and you will have to send a follow-up email that @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE downwards again. When most of the quotes have been removed and you have added your own words, - you are done! + you are done. 2.5 HTML is not for mails @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE Change the subject name to something sensible and related to the subject, preferably even the actual subject of the single mail you wanted to reply to - 2.8 Please Tell Us How You Solved The Problem! + 2.8 Please Tell Us How You Solved The Problem Many people mail questions to the list, people spend some of their time and make an effort in providing good answers to these questions. @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE feel good to know that they provided a good answer and that you fixed the problem. Far too often, the person who asked the question is never heard from again, and we never get to know if he/she is gone because the problem was - solved or perhaps because the problem was unsolvable! + solved or perhaps because the problem was unsolvable. Getting the solution posted also helps other users that experience the same problem(s). They get to see (possibly in the web archives) that the |