MAIL-ETIQUETTE: "1.8 I posted, now what?"

  1.5 Moderation of new posters

  1.6 Handling trolls and spam

  1.7 How to unsubscribe

  1.8 I posted, now what?

 2. Sending mail

  2.1 Reply or New Mail

  You NEVER EVER email the mailing list requesting someone else to get you off

  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