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diff --git a/plugins/FTPFileYM/curl-7.29.0/docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE b/plugins/FTPFileYM/curl-7.29.0/docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE deleted file mode 100644 index ae1821a89b..0000000000 --- a/plugins/FTPFileYM/curl-7.29.0/docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE +++ /dev/null @@ -1,228 +0,0 @@ - _ _ ____ _ - ___| | | | _ \| | - / __| | | | |_) | | - | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ - \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| - -MAIL ETIQUETTE - - 1. About the lists - 1.1 Mailing Lists - 1.2 Netiquette - 1.3 Do Not Mail a Single Individual - 1.4 Subscription Required - 1.5 Moderation of new posters - 1.6 Handling trolls and spam - 1.7 How to unsubscribe - - 2. Sending mail - 2.1 Reply or New Mail - 2.2 Reply to the List - 2.3 Use a Sensible Subject - 2.4 Do Not Top-Post - 2.5 HTML is not for mails - 2.6 Quoting - 2.7 Digest - 2.8 Please Tell Us How You Solved The Problem! - -============================================================================== - -1. About the lists - - 1.1 Mailing Lists - - The mailing lists we have are all listed and described at - http://curl.haxx.se/mail/ - - Each mailing list is targeted to a specific set of users and subjects, - please use the one or the ones that suit you the most. - - Each mailing list have hundreds up to thousands of readers, meaning that - each mail sent will be received and read by a very large amount of people. - People from various cultures, regions, religions and continents. - - 1.2 Netiquette - - Netiquette is a common name for how to behave on the internet. Of course, in - each particular group and subculture there will be differences in what is - acceptable and what is considered good manners. - - This document outlines what we in the cURL project considers to be good - etiquette, and primarily this focus on how to behave on and how to use our - mailing lists. - - 1.3 Do Not Mail a Single Individual - - Many people send one question to one person. One person gets many mails, and - there is only one person who can give you a reply. The question may be - something that other people are also wanting to ask. These other people have - no way to read the reply, but to ask the one person the question. The one - person consequently gets overloaded with mail. - - If you really want to contact an individual and perhaps pay for his or her - services, by all means go ahead, but if it's just another curl question, - take it to a suitable list instead. - - 1.4 Subscription Required - - All curl mailing lists require that you are subscribed to allow a mail to go - through to all the subscribers. - - If you post without being subscribed (or from a different mail address than - the one you are subscribed with), your mail will simply be silently - discarded. You have to subscribe first, then post. - - The reason for this unfortunate and strict subscription policy is of course - to stop spam from pestering the lists. - - 1.5 Moderation of new posters - - Several of the curl mailing lists automatically make all posts from new - subscribers require moderation. This means that after you've subscribed and - send your first mail to a list, that mail will not be let through to the - list until a mailing list administrator has verified that it is OK and - permits it to get posted. - - Once a first post has been made that proves the sender is actually talking - about curl-related subjects, the moderation "flag" will be switched off and - future posts will go through without being moderated. - - The reason for this moderation policy is that we do suffer from spammers who - actually subscribe and send spam to our lists. - - 1.6 Handling trolls and spam - - Despite our good intentions and hard work to keep spam off the lists and to - maintain a friendly and positive atmosphere, there will be times when spam - and or trolls get through. - - Troll - "someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages - in an online community" - - Spam - "use of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk - messages" - - No matter what, we NEVER EVER respond to trolls or spammers on the list. If - you believe the list admin should do something particular, contact him/her - off-list. The subject will be taken care of as good as possible to prevent - repeated offences, but responding on the list to such messages never lead to - anything good and only puts the light even more on the offender: which was - the entire purpose of it getting to the list in the first place. - - Don't feed the trolls! - - 1.7 How to unsubscribe - - You unsubscribe the same way you subscribed in the first place. You go to - the page for the particular mailing list you're subscribed to and you enter - your email address and password and press the unsubscribe button. - - Also, this information is included in the headers of every mail that is sent - out to all curl related mailing lists and there's footer in each mail that - links to the "admin" page on which you can unsubscribe and change other - options. - - You NEVER EVER email the mailing list requesting someone else to get you off - the list. - - -2. Sending mail - - 2.1 Reply or New Mail - - Please do not reply to an existing message as a short-cut to post a message - to the lists. - - Many mail programs and web archivers use information within mails to keep - them together as "threads", as collections of posts that discuss a certain - subject. If you don't intend to reply on the same or similar subject, don't - just hit reply on an existing mail and change subject, create a new mail. - - 2.2 Reply to the List - - When replying to a message from the list, make sure that you do "group - reply" or "reply to all", and not just reply to the author of the single - mail you reply to. - - We're actively discouraging replying back to the single person by setting - the Reply-To: field in outgoing mails back to the mailing list address, - making it harder for people to mail the author only by mistake. - - 2.3 Use a Sensible Subject - - Please use a subject of the mail that makes sense and that is related to the - contents of your mail. It makes it a lot easier to find your mail afterwards - and it makes it easier to track mail threads and topics. - - 2.4 Do Not Top-Post - - If you reply to a message, don't use top-posting. Top-posting is when you - write the new text at the top of a mail and you insert the previous quoted - mail conversation below. It forces users to read the mail in a backwards - order to properly understand it. - - This is why top posting is so bad: - - A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read - text. - Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? - A: Top-posting. - Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? - - Apart from the screwed up read order (especially when mixed together in a - thread when someone responds using the mandated bottom-posting style), it - also makes it impossible to quote only parts of the original mail. - - When you reply to a mail. You let the mail client insert the previous mail - quoted. Then you put the cursor on the first line of the mail and you move - down through the mail, deleting all parts of the quotes that don't add - context for your comments. When you want to add a comment you do so, inline, - right after the quotes that relate to your comment. Then you continue - downwards again. - - When most of the quotes have been removed and you've added your own words, - you're done! - - 2.5 HTML is not for mails - - Please switch off those HTML encoded messages. You can mail all those funny - mails to your friends. We speak plain text mails. - - 2.6 Quoting - - Quote as little as possible. Just enough to provide the context you cannot - leave out. A lengthy description can be found here: - - http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html - - 2.7 Digest - - We allow subscribers to subscribe to the "digest" version of the mailing - lists. A digest is a collection of mails lumped together in one single mail. - - Should you decide to reply to a mail sent out as a digest, there are two - things you MUST consider if you really really cannot subscribe normally - instead: - - Cut off all mails and chatter that is not related to the mail you want to - reply to. - - 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! - - Many people mail questions to the list, people spend some of their time and - make an effort in providing good answers to these questions. - - If you are the one who asks, please consider responding once more in case - one of the hints was what solved your problems. The guys who write answers - 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 of - again, and we never get to know if he/she is gone because the problem was - 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 - suggested fixes actually has helped at least one person. - |