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@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ and dies.</p>
<dl>
<dt><a href="#acceptable">Acceptable Topics</a><dd>
<dt><a href="#unacceptable">Unacceptable Topics</a><dd>
<dt><a href="#quoting">Quoting and Message Size</a><dd>
<dt><a href="#quoting">Effective Posting</a><dd>
<dt><a href="#behavior">Prohibited Behavior</a><dd>
<dt><a href="#culture">Culture</a><dd>
</dl>
@ -58,13 +58,14 @@ will let you know.</p>
newsgroup instead.</li>
<li>Job offers.</li>
<li>Requests for solutions to homework assignments.</ul>
<h2><a name="quoting"></a>Quoting and Message Size</h2>
<h2><a name="quoting"></a>Effective Posting</h2>
<p>Please <b>limit the amount of quoted text</b> in replies to this
list. Some people have to pay for, or wait for, each byte that they
download from the list. More importantly, it will save time and make
your post more valuable when readers do not have to find out which
exact part of a previous message you are responding to.
<p>Please <b>prune extraneous quoted text</b> from replies so that
only the relevant parts are included. Some people have to pay for, or
wait for, each byte that they download from the list. More
importantly, it will save time and make your post more valuable when
readers do not have to find out which exact part of a previous message
you are responding to.
<p>A common and very useful approach is to cite the small fractions of
the message you are actually responding to and to put your response
@ -107,9 +108,12 @@ href="http://www.tinyurl.com">tinyurl.com</a>. Citing the relevant
portion of a message you link to is often helpful (if the citation is
small).
<p>Don't forget, it's a single writer but there are many readers.
So, saving some time for the readers is worth spending extra
time when writing a message.
<p>Don't forget, you're a single writer but there are many readers,
and you want them to stay interested in what you're saying. Saving
your readers a little time and effort is usually worth the extra time
you spend when writing a message. Also, boost discussions are saved
for posterity, as rationales and history of the work we do. A post's
usefulness in the future is determined by its readability.
<p>The mailing list software automatically limits message and
attachment size to a reasonable amount, typically 75K, which is
@ -117,6 +121,22 @@ adjusted from time-to-time by the moderators.. This limit is a
courtesy to those who rely on dial-up Internet access.
</p>
<p><b>When starting a new topic, always send a fresh message</b>,
rather than beginning a reply to some other message and replacing the
subject and body. Many mailers are able to detect the thread you
started with and will show the new message as part of the original
thread, which probably isn't what you intended. Follow this guideline
for your own sake as well as for others'. Often, people scanning for
relevant messages will decide they're done with a topic and hide or
kill the entire thread: your message will be missed, and you won't get
the response you're looking for.
<p><b>Do not reply to digests</b> if you are a digest delivery
subscriber. Your reply will not be properly threaded and will
probably have the wrong subject line. Instead, you can reply through
the <a href="http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel">GMane
web interface</a>.
<h2><a name="behavior"></a>Prohibited behavior</h2>
<p>Prohibited behavior will not be tolerated. The moderators will ban
postings by abusers.</p>