Mailing List Guidelines
WinEdt Mailing List Guidelines
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These guidelines are sent to the WinEdt Mailing List once a month.
Please keep them in mind when posting to the list.
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* What To Post
The WinEdt Mailing List is for questions about the WinEdt editor. You
should not post questions concerning LaTeX, MiKTeX, BibTeX et al. to
the mailing list. WinEdt is a shell/editor for LaTeX etc. and the
list is intended to answer questions concerning WinEdt, not LaTeX
etc.
(Sometimes it might be difficult to decide whether a problem is
related to WinEdt or to MiKTeX, LaTeX etc. A rule of thumb is: If you
are having the same problems when running the program from the
command line, it is NOT related to WinEdt.)
A lot of questions are being asked over and over again. Check that
your question isn't already answered in the WinEdt FAQ at
<http://www.winedt.org/Doc/FAQ>
or in the mailing list archives at
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WinEdt>.
When sending a question to the mailing list, try to be specific.
Include (at least)
+ the Build number of your WinEdt (see "Help | About WinEdt...")
+ your operating system (e.g.: "Windows 2000, Service Pack 2")
+ a detailed description of the problem and how to reproduce it.
If you have received one or more answers that solved your problem,
you can give something back to the WinEdt community by writing a
summary that can be integrated in the WinEdt FAQ. You can either send
it to the list, or directly to the maintainer of the FAQ.
Do NEVER post your registration key. Nobody needs to know it.
* How To Post
Use plain-text format. Not everybody can (or wants to) read HTML.
Use a meaningful subject line that will make sense to the people
whose help you are trying to get.
Do not quote entire messages just to add a few lines at the beginning
or end. Instead, quote the parts to which you are directly replying
or quote enough to establish the context.
Everybody on the list has already received the message that you are
quoting, and anyone searching the archive will find your message and
the previous message listed under the same thread.
Do not start a new thread by replying to an unrelated message and
just changing the subject line. For people who group messages by
threading in their mailer, your mail will appear as one of the
replies to the original message. It is better to start a new message
for a new thread.
The preferred language on the WinEdt Mailing List is English. This
does not imply disrespect to other languages, but simply guarantees
the best possible communication as English is the language that the
largest number of subscribers are able to understand.
Since the WinEdt list has been used for unwittingly spreading viruses
in e-mail attachments in the past, all attachments will be removed
from your mails. All relevant documents (if any) are text files
anyway, which you can include in the body of your message.
Do not request return receipts.
If you are "out of office" and you want to set up an auto-responder
for your e-mail account, please unsubscribe from the list
temporarily!
* Unsubscribing + More
To unsubscribe from the WinEdt Mailing List, send an empty mail to:
<winedt+list-unsubscribe <at> wsg.net> from the account that you are
subscribed with.
DO NOT send a mail to the list! This will have no effect apart from
annoying the subscribers.
The complete list of administrative commands for the WinEdt Mailing
List can be found here: <http://www.winedt.org/Doc/listinstr.php>
* Links
+ The WinEdt home page
<http://www.winedt.com/>
+ WinEdt community's home page
<http://www.winedt.org/>
WinEdt.org is a place for users of WinEdt to share configuration
components, macros, plug-ins etc.
It also hosts a list of frequently asked questions:
<http://www.winedt.org/Doc/FAQ/>
+ The WinEdt Mailing List messages are archived at
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WinEdt>
+ Links for LaTeX and friends:
- the UK TUG TeX FAQ: <http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq>
- the international TeX newsgroup <news:comp.text.tex>, offering
quick and knowledgeable help
- its archive can be found at
<http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.text.tex>
- the MiKTeX mailing lists (see <http://www.miktex.org/lists.html>)
+ If you have any suggestions for these guidelines, please contact me
at <robert <at> winedt.org>
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Happy WinEdt'ing!
For the WinEdt.org team,
robert <at> winedt.org
Last changed on: $Date: 2003-04-26 16:41:23+02 $
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