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

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@ -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
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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
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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.