MAIL-ETIQUETTE: added "1.9 Your emails are public"

  1.6 Handling trolls and spam

  1.7 How to unsubscribe

  1.8 I posted, now what?

  1.9 Your emails are public

 2. Sending mail

  2.1 Reply or New Mail

  chances are that people will ignore you at will and your chances to get

  responses in the future will greatly diminish.

  1.9 Your emails are public

  Your email, its contents and all its headers and the details in those

  headers will be received by every subscriber of the mailing list that you

  send your email to.

  Your email as sent to a curl mailing list will end up in mail archives, on

  the curl web site and elsewhere, for others to see and read. Today and in

  the future. In addition to the archives, the mail is sent out to thousands

  of individuals. There is no way to undo a sent email.

  When sending emails to a curl mailing list, do not include sensitive

  information such as user names and passwords; use fake ones, temporary ones

  or just remove them completely from the mail. Note that this includes base64

  encoded HTTP Basic auth headers.

  This public nature of the curl mailing lists makes automaticly inserted mail

  footers about mails being "private" or "only meant for the receipient" or

  similar even more silly than usual. Because they are absolutely not private

  when sent to a public mailing list.

2. Sending mail

  Getting the solution posted also helps other users that experience the same

  problem(s). They get to see (possibly in the web archives) that the

  suggested fixes actually has helped at least one person.