[rules-users] How to have your emails ignored

Mark Proctor mproctor at codehaus.org
Wed Oct 3 12:34:36 EDT 2007


ok I've blogged this already:
http://blog.athico.com/2007/10/how-to-have-your-emails-ignored.html

:)
Scott Reed wrote:
> Please tell me how I can call a function on the LHS.
> (hurry my assignment is due today!)
>
> ekke's message received 10/3/2007 11:10 AM:
>> don't open a new topic - place your mail in the middle of another thread
>> which belongs to a totally different topic
>> start your email with "I'm a member of the drools mailinglist, so please
>> answer me"
>>
>> ekke
>>
>> Mark Proctor wrote:
>>> Did this for some fun, will add it to the mailing lists info page on 
>>> the website. Anyone else have some more ideas? I'll blog the final 
>>> results :)
>>>
>>> How to have your emails ignored:
>>> 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.
>>> Ask questions about JRules
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>>>
>>>
>>
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