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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">Effective Posting</a><dd>
<dt><a href="#effective">Effective Posting</a><dd>
<dt><a href="#behavior">Prohibited Behavior</a><dd>
<dt><a href="#culture">Culture</a><dd>
<dt><a href="#lib_names">Library Names</a><dd>
@ -59,9 +59,22 @@ 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>Effective Posting</h2>
<h2><a name="effective"></a>Effective Posting</h2>
<p>Please <b>prune extraneous quoted text</b> from replies so that
<p>When your post is related to a particular Boost library, it's
helpful to put the library name in square brackets at the beginning of
the subject line, e.g.
<blockquote>
Subject: [Regex] Why doesn't this pattern match?
</blockquote>
The Boost developers' list is a high-volume mailing list, and most
maintainers don't have time to read every message. A tag on the
subject line will help ensure the right people see your post.
<p><a name="quoting"></a>
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
@ -233,7 +246,7 @@ documentation, directory structure, or even identifiers in the
code of potential Boost libraries.
<hr>
<p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->24 March, 2005<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" i-checksum="38549" endspan -->
<p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->28 May, 2005<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" i-checksum="38549" endspan -->
</p>
<p>© Beman Dawes, Rob Stewart, and David Abrahams 2000-2005</p>
<p> Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.