moparisthebest
/
curl
mirror of https://github.com/moparisthebest/curl
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Releases Wiki Activity

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

This commit is contained in:
Daniel Stenberg 2017-09-05 09:29:11 +02:00
parent 7b81623660
commit d491a9c3a8
No known key found for this signature in database
GPG Key ID: 5CC908FDB71E12C2
1 changed files with 26 additions and 5 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

31
docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE
View File

@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE
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
@ -118,9 +119,9 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE
to the page for the particular mailing list you're 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
mail that is sent out to all curl related mailing lists and there's a footer
in each mail that links to the "admin" page on which you can unsubscribe and
Also, the instructions to unsubscribe are included in the headers of every
mail that is sent out to all curl related mailing lists and there's a footer
in each mail that links to the "admin" page on which you can unsubscribe and
change other options.
You NEVER EVER email the mailing list requesting someone else to take you off
@ -151,7 +152,7 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE
or repeat the same steps in their locations.
Failing to include details will only delay responses and make people respond
and ask for more details and you will have to send a follow-up email that
and ask for more details and you will have to send a follow-up email that
includes them.
Expect the responses to primarily help YOU debug the issue, or ask YOU
@ -162,6 +163,27 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE
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
@ -261,4 +283,3 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE
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.