[iot-wg] mailing list etiquette - again
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Jim Reid
jim at rfc1035.com
Fri Nov 9 09:43:21 CET 2018
On 7 Nov 2018, at 15:04, Avetik Yessayan <avetik.yessayan at shte.am> wrote: > > Dear colleagues, I like to put forward my candidacy on WG co-chair. You've probably not helped your candidacy by breaking two of the golden rules of mailing list etiquette. :-) Could everyone please take care to use meaningful and relevant Subject: headers? And in particular, *never, ever* reply to a list digest message. Thanks. In case this needs further explanation, here's what I posted about this subject last year: Replies to message digests create unnecessary and easily avoided problems. Here are the main ones: [1] It messes up the article threading used by everybody’s mail clients. [2] It’s not clear which message(s) in the digest are being replied to. [3] The list archives contain completely useless Subject: headers (like "iot-wg Digest, Vol X, Issue Y”) which make it difficult when browsing the archives to find out who said what and when. Item [3] becomes a real nuisance if/when there’s a need to consult the list archives to verify a consensus decision or review the development of things such as policy proposals.
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