Loading docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE +26 −5 Original line number Original line Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE 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? 1.8 I posted, now what? 1.9 Your emails are public 2. Sending mail 2. Sending mail 2.1 Reply or New Mail 2.1 Reply or New Mail Loading Loading @@ -162,6 +163,27 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE chances are that people will ignore you at will and your chances to get chances are that people will ignore you at will and your chances to get responses in the future will greatly diminish. 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 2. Sending mail Loading Loading @@ -261,4 +283,3 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE Getting the solution posted also helps other users that experience the same 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 problem(s). They get to see (possibly in the web archives) that the suggested fixes actually has helped at least one person. suggested fixes actually has helped at least one person. Loading
docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE +26 −5 Original line number Original line Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE 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? 1.8 I posted, now what? 1.9 Your emails are public 2. Sending mail 2. Sending mail 2.1 Reply or New Mail 2.1 Reply or New Mail Loading Loading @@ -162,6 +163,27 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE chances are that people will ignore you at will and your chances to get chances are that people will ignore you at will and your chances to get responses in the future will greatly diminish. 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 2. Sending mail Loading Loading @@ -261,4 +283,3 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE Getting the solution posted also helps other users that experience the same 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 problem(s). They get to see (possibly in the web archives) that the suggested fixes actually has helped at least one person. suggested fixes actually has helped at least one person.
