On 05/12/13 09:32, (Ted Harding) wrote:
On 05-Dec-2013 09:08:33 Steve Engledow wrote:
On 04/12/13 16:02, Mark Rogers wrote:
On 4 December 2013 13:43, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@wlandres.net wrote:
In case it may be useful (perhaps also to others) I attach herewith my 7-page Awk Language Summary as PDF:
Thanks Ted, that looks really useful, particularly given I have used awk before and really need a refresher.
Wait, what? That does sound really useful and I never saw it :'(
Did Ted reply off-list?
Ted, any chance of posting that to the list?
Cheers, Steve
I replied to the list, with Cc: to Mark (which is why he got it), but I received an auto-reponse
Your mail to 'main' with the subject RE: [ALUG] Cross-platform text file processing tools Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Message has a suspicious header
and am still waiting!
Steve: I'll drop you an off-list email with it attached.
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Hi folks. To begin with, IANAA* When I read this thread (in threaded view in Thunderbird), I saw the initial post from Mark. Then I saw Mark's reply to Ewan. I'd *wrongly* assumed that Ewan replied solely off-list to Mark and Mark replied on list to Ewan's off-list reply. I was going to comment about this.
I then saw Mark reply to (Ted ), without first having seen Ted's post. I again *wrongly* assumed that this was an off-list reply being quoted.
Today however, I see Ewan and Ted's posts, and and Ted's comment that he got a reply saying that his message "Message has a suspicious header".
Looking at the posts that appeared late, it became apparent that Ewan's post was in HTML, and Ted's post contained an attachment. AIUI**, either of these will result in a post to ALUG being redirected to and Admin, who will then either approve or reject the post, so it won't appear quickly - may be a day or so after the original post.
AIUI, posting in HTML and adding attachments, whilst not completely forbidden, are frowned upon.
Below is my summary of some of what I believe the etiquette of posting to ALUG is. I could be wrong. Please excuse me if I am. Also, I'm not trying to tell anyone what to do - it's not my place - I'm not an Admin.
* If someone posts on ALUG, generally try to reply on list, unless it's personal or confidential. Otherwise someone searching for the solution to a problem may find someone on ALUG with the same problem, but be unable to find the solution because it was posted off list.
* If someone replies to you off-list, generally it is considered impolite to quote that reply on-list. You have to assume that there was a reason for the reply not being made public, and should attempt to honour it.
* Avoid posting in HTML text.
* If at all possible, attachments should be saved on a website somewhere and a link to the attachment provided.
Some or all of this was covered in a thread on 04 Jun 2010 called "Using the Alug mailing list - Attachments and html".
Quoting the initial post: "Can I please remind everyone that Alug is supposed to be a plain text mailing list only, I do approve the odd html post here and there to keep communication up but it's getting more and more frequent. Can people please check their mail client is set to only send plain text to this mailing list.
Also, sending attachments to this list will result in them being rejected (mostly). If you do have a large file or log then consider putting it on some web hosting somewhere and providing a link or using a pastebin instead."
Perhaps it would be worth re-posting the "rules" and/or etiquette on a regular basis? Are people still happy with these rules/etiquette? (I am).
Steve