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1.5 Moderation of new posters 1.5 Moderation of new posters
1.6 Handling trolls and spam 1.6 Handling trolls and spam
1.7 How to unsubscribe 1.7 How to unsubscribe
1.8 I posted, now what?
2. Sending mail 2. Sending mail
2.1 Reply or New Mail 2.1 Reply or New Mail
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You NEVER EVER email the mailing list requesting someone else to get you off You NEVER EVER email the mailing list requesting someone else to get you off
the list. the list.
1.8 I posted, now what?
If you aren't subscribed with the exact same email address that you used to
send the email, your post will just be silently discarded.
If you posted for the first time to the mailing list, you first need to wait
for an administrator to allow your email to go through. This normally
happens very quickly but in case we're asleep, you may have to wait a few
hours.
Once your email goes through it is sent out to several hundred or even
thousand recipients. Your email may cover an area that not that many people
know about or are interested in. Or possibly the person who knows about it
is on vacation or under a very heavy work load right now. You have to wait
for a response and you must not expect to get a response at all, but
hopefully you get an answer within a couple of days.
You do yourself and all of us a service when you include as many details as
possible already in your first email. Mention your operating system and
environment. Tell us which curl version you're using and tell us what you
did, what happened and what you expected would happen. Preferably, show us
what you did in details enough to allow others to help point out the problem
or repeat the same steps in their places.
Failing to include details will only delay responses and make people respond
and ask for the details and you have to send a follow-up email that includes
them.
Expect the responses to primarily help YOU debug the issue, or ask you
questions that can lead you or others towards a solution or explanation to
whatever you experience.
If you are a repeat offender to the guidelines outlined in this document,
chances are that people will ignore you at will and your chances to get
responses will greatly diminish.
2. Sending mail 2. Sending mail