Dependometer related Mailing Lists
| List | Description | Archive | Subscribe/Manage (via Web) |
Subscribe/Manage (via Email) |
Address |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dependometer-users | Usage related questions If in doubt post here |
dependometer-user archive | dependometer-user Management | dependometer-user-request (at) source.valtech.com | dependometer-user (at) source.valtech.com |
| dependometer-dev | Dependometer (and subproject) development related posts. |
dependometer-dev archive | dependometer-dev Management | dependometer-dev-request (at) source.valtech.com | dependometer-dev (at) source.valtech.com |
How to have your emails ignored and attract abuse from others:
- Start the email with "URGENT"
- Tell everyone how desparate you and how you need an immediate response for your really important project.
- Don't wait a minimum of 3 days and resend your email within minutes of hours.
- Send emails directly to mailing list members, especially the developers.
- Paste pages of code and then say "it doesn't work, please help".
- Paste a long stack trace and say "it doesn't work, please help".
- Start your email with "please sirs" or include "do the needful".
- Ask dumb questions that are in the manual.
- Ask basic java questions.
- Reply to an existing thread but starting a new topic
- Start your email with "I'm a member of the mailinglist, so please answer me"
- General begging and pleading
- Say some thing to the effect of "Please tell me how I can ... (hurry my assignment is due today!)"
- Talk about a potential bug and not mention the version you are using
- Email user questions to the dev mailing list.
- Email both dev and user list in the hope of a quicker response.
(Guidelines lifted from the Drools Mailinglists)