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diff --git a/docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE b/docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE index 9d210a655..2d54e0a4b 100644 --- a/docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE +++ b/docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE @@ -34,14 +34,14 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE 1.1 Mailing Lists The mailing lists we have are all listed and described at - https://curl.haxx.se/mail/ + https://curl.se/mail/ Each mailing list is targeted to a specific set of users and subjects, please use the one or the ones that suit you the most. - Each mailing list has hundreds up to thousands of readers, meaning that - each mail sent will be received and read by a very large number of people. - People from various cultures, regions, religions and continents. + Each mailing list has hundreds up to thousands of readers, meaning that each + mail sent will be received and read by a large number of people. People + from various cultures, regions, religions and continents. 1.2 Netiquette @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE 1.5 Moderation of new posters Several of the curl mailing lists automatically make all posts from new - subscribers be moderated. This means that after you've subscribed and + subscribers be moderated. This means that after you have subscribed and sent your first mail to a list, that mail will not be let through to the list until a mailing list administrator has verified that it is OK and permits it to get posted. @@ -111,12 +111,12 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE anything good and only puts the light even more on the offender: which was the entire purpose of it getting sent to the list in the first place. - Don't feed the trolls! + Do not feed the trolls! 1.7 How to unsubscribe You can unsubscribe the same way you subscribed in the first place. You go - to the page for the particular mailing list you're subscribed to and you enter + to the page for the particular mailing list you are subscribed to and you enter your email address and password and press the unsubscribe button. Also, the instructions to unsubscribe are included in the headers of every @@ -129,24 +129,24 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE 1.8 I posted, now what? - If you aren't subscribed with the exact same email address that you used to + If you are not 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 (moderated). This normally - happens very quickly but in case we're asleep, you may have to wait a few - hours. + for an administrator to allow your email to go through (moderated). This + normally happens quickly but in case we are asleep, you may have to wait a + few hours. Once your email goes through it is sent out to several hundred or even - thousands of 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 may have to wait - for a response and you should not expect to get a response at all, but - hopefully you get an answer within a couple of days. + thousands of 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 heavy work load right now. You may have + to wait for a response and you should 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 + environment. Tell us which curl version you are using and tell us what you did, what happened and what you expected would happen. Preferably, show us what you did with details enough to allow others to help point out the problem or repeat the same steps in their locations. @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE Many mail programs and web archivers use information within mails to keep them together as "threads", as collections of posts that discuss a certain - subject. If you don't intend to reply on the same or similar subject, don't + subject. If you do not intend to reply on the same or similar subject, do not just hit reply on an existing mail and change subject, create a new mail. 2.2 Reply to the List @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE reply" or "reply to all", and not just reply to the author of the single mail you reply to. - We're actively discouraging replying back to the single person by setting + We are actively discouraging replying back to the single person by setting the Reply-To: field in outgoing mails back to the mailing list address, making it harder for people to mail the author directly, if only by mistake. @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE 2.4 Do Not Top-Post - If you reply to a message, don't use top-posting. Top-posting is when you + If you reply to a message, do not use top-posting. Top-posting is when you write the new text at the top of a mail and you insert the previous quoted mail conversation below. It forces users to read the mail in a backwards order to properly understand it. @@ -233,13 +233,13 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE When you reply to a mail. You let the mail client insert the previous mail quoted. Then you put the cursor on the first line of the mail and you move - down through the mail, deleting all parts of the quotes that don't add + down through the mail, deleting all parts of the quotes that do not add context for your comments. When you want to add a comment you do so, inline, right after the quotes that relate to your comment. Then you continue downwards again. - When most of the quotes have been removed and you've added your own words, - you're done! + When most of the quotes have been removed and you have added your own words, + you are done! 2.5 HTML is not for mails |