list etiquette

Carlo Caione carlo at caione.org
Tue Jun 7 14:17:09 EDT 2016


On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 7:40 PM,  <mhornung.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tobin,
>
> On Mon, 06. Jun 18:53, Tobin Harding wrote:
>> LKML list etiquette question.
>>
>> When asking a [simple] question that receives an suitable answer is it correct
>> etiquette to reply with a thank you email or is this just adding noise to the
>> list?
>
> Someone reading your question (and the suitable answer) later on might wonder
> if the answer was correct or not. So yes, it is always useful to reply with a
> "thank you" if the answer was correct and useful.

This generates useless spam and traffic in a ml that already counts
hundreds of mails per day.

-- 
Carlo Caione



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