Programmers must know about maillistThis article was first published by love butterfly. Note: I have been involved in several maillist, and I have written this article because one maillist becomes a "small pond" without any academic atmosphere, loyal and admonishing everyone to treat maillist well, respect every subscriber on maillist, and create a harmonious network communication environment. Maillist, which is the mail list. Kingsoft 2005 indicates the mail list. Maillist may be one of the oldest interpersonal communication methods on the Internet, but it is still one of the most effective means of Internet communication. Maillist is no more efficient than direct email communication between people. emails sent to maillist are distributed to the mailboxes of all people subscribed to maillist. Think about it. If there are 10 thousand registered users in a forum, as long as one thousand users often go online, you can send a post to check that less than one hundred people may answer questions, i'm afraid there are only three or five. For a maillist with hundreds of subscribers, an "interesting" topic may cause dozens of replies. Because of the Efficiency of maillist communication, maillist is widely used in schools, enterprises, non-profit organizations, and some industries with broad member distribution areas. In college, we can subscribe to the school's maillist. In company, we are usually asked to join the maillist; as a programmer, we certainly subscribed to different maillist to enrich our learning environment. We may also be involved in an open-source project, so we may have subscribed to maillist from many open-source projects. This series of maillist is the bond between us to get help and help others, so we need to learn how to treat maillist and maillist friends. Although the Chinese claim that China is a State of courtesy, many of us do not even understand the most basic courtesy. How to Write a seemingly annoying email, I have already discussed with you in the "programmer will know e-mail" (http://blog.csdn.net/lanphaday/archive/2006/06/29/850059.aspx), the content is also basically applicable to maillist, so I will not go into details. Now let's talk about some topics about mailhandler.
Not speaking is the bestBecause emails sent to maillist will be received by all subscribers, do not speak in maillist if the answers are not found elsewhere. Email is a very important contact method for programmers. For several people, receiving an email means reading (or even replying to an email ). Imagine how you feel when you go home and hear ten or eight of your phone messages are advertisements for household products, and maillist is filled with a large number of low-quality topics, this will cause the enthusiasm of maillist subscribers to decline, or even the loss of masters. Over time, more and more problems will not be solved, and this maillist will be cruelly attacked by everyone. Maillst is an effective means to solve the problem, but it is by no means the only method. In addition, because of regional differences (such as subscribing to a worldwide maillist) and other factors, it takes a lot of time to get a response, so maillist should be a backup solution. We should give priority to our colleagues, colleagues, and teachers, search engines, and online users in IM groups (such as QQ groups, MSN groups, and bubble interest groups; the local forum is preferred (for example, it may take much longer to get a reply to a simple question directly in C ++ maillist than to ask in the csdn Forum ). If you have already tried these solutions and no one can solve your problem, you can try to speak to maillist. Do not reply to other things in maillist except for speaking and answering questions. If you are an inquirer and want to thank the respondent after resolving the problem, you can send an email to him privately instead of replying to maillist directly. Do not joke in maillist, or post funny jokes, jokes, and beautiful pictures that you think are funny. This will make everyone think that your quality is quite low. Last, do not subscribe to maillist by email with the "automatic reply" function. Maybe some "modern" maillist servers can ignore automatic replies, but it is best not to do so.
Detailed descriptionFinally, I can send an email to maillist with confidence. Now, we need to describe the problem in detail. Before continuing, let's talk about courtesy and courtesy. You can find the e-mail etiquette content in "the programmer must know the e-mail article" (http://blog.csdn.net/lanphaday/archive/2006/06/29/850059.aspx), if you are not confident that the e-mail you write is complete, please read it again. This article was first published by love butterfly. To describe the problem in detail, you may need to include these three points: 1) Your problem; 2) You can find the reference answer through other channels; 3) If you have code and test cases, please provide them. Basically, other maillist subscribers can help you. The subject of the email should also be a description of the problem, similar to "questions from Beginners", which is far inferior to "How to Implement the XX function ". If it is a reply or a new discussion is triggered, reference the original text in the appropriate position to help readers understand what they mean.
Keep clues cleanMaillist is a communication environment in which someone will reply. When we reply to others' questions, please do not change the mail clues. Simply put, do not change the mail title (generally, the Re (which may be r or reply) automatically added during the reply won't change the clue, so you don't need to care about it ). Currently, many mail clients can organize emails Based on clues to provide users with a better reading experience (there is also a tendency for Gmail web mail), so we need to keep the clues clean, convenience for others. Do not discuss other issues online. For example, if you have initiated a problem about C ++, do not reply to the question "XXX about MySQL Database" after the problem is solved. Please give a new clue. First, it is helpful for you to solve the problem. Second, it is easy for someone to find the "XXX problem about MySQL Database" when reading the history of maillist. For reference, I personally suggest that you only reference the last three emails and delete the references in a timely manner to save bandwidth. Many people like to quote all of them.
Self-protection"Spam" emails may always appear on maillist. These "spam" emails are not necessarily advertising emails, what's more, it's not a "professional" email in your field of interest or a low level of issues that you don't think are worthwhile. Self-protection is necessary at this time. One of the tricks is to use keyword filtering. Currently, both the web mail and mail client support filtering. The second trick is to simply exit maillist and re-join it if necessary, but it is extremely effective. At this point, you should not be the one who will be scolded by the whole maillist subscriber after an email, because you are friendly with maillist, you will also be able to get more help from maillst, or get more happiness by helping others.
