On Wednesday 25 February 2009 07:40:22 Domenic Santangelo wrote:
OP here. I realize the importance of keeping the list clean and on-topic and am glad to see your input.
Hi OP, I must side with Gerhard on at least one point: in this whole thread, he is the only one to have changed the subject line to something actually related to what is being discussed. This whole discussion could have been interesting to some people researching the archives of this list. However, how is anything that has been said related to "Welcome to the 'development' mailing list"??? This whole thread is lost as far as the archives are concerned. It's considered good netiquette to properly advertise the content of a mail by giving a meaningfull subject line. Any of the people who have replied to your email could have changed the topic line, too, to correct your original lack of manners. Gerhard is the only one to have done so. "Top-posting" is also considered bad manners. If you think about them, there are some good reasons behind each commonly agreed rule of netiquette, just like there are good reasons behind each of Drupal's very detailed coding standards. Thanks for taking such rules into consideration. Augustin.