On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 15:55:54 PM -0400, ne... (akabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > I think it would be good if there was a list of rules detailing what > was expected of subscribers in term of how to post, posting to the > relevant list etc. It exists. Just google for "How to ask questions the smart way" or "Netiquette". They don't work for the same reason why spam works. As long as people who mess the lists violating those rules get answers, they'll keep ignoring them. Flaming them is not an option, of course. Still, if all they got was nothing, or a really polite request to "read this and that, post again, and we'll kill each other for the honor to help you first"... things may change... Ciao, Marco Fioretti -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ A good man is intelligent, and a bad man is also an idiot. Moral and intellectual characteristics go together - Jorge Luis Borges
