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标 题: how to ask questions smartly (8)
发信站: 听涛站 (2002年07月19日17:46:31 星期五), 站内信件
Send questions in formats that are easy to understand
If you make your question artificially hard to read, it is more likely to be
passed over in favor of one that isn't. So:
Send plain text mail, not HTML. (It's not hard to turn off HTML.)
MIME attachments are usually OK, but only if they are real content (such as
an attached source file or patch), and not merely boilerplate generated by y
our mail client (such as another copy of your message).
Don't send mail in which entire paragraphs are single multiply-wrapped lines
. (This makes it too difficult to reply to just part of the message.) Assume
that your respondents will be reading mail on 80-character-wide text displa
ys and set your line wrap accordingly, to something less than 80.
However, do not wrap data (such as log file dumps or session transcripts) at
any fixed column width. Data should be included as-is, so respondents can h
ave confidence that they are seeing what you saw.
Don't send MIME Quoted-Printable encoding to an English-language forum. This
encoding can be necessary when you're posting in a language ASCII doesn't c
over, but a lot of mail agents don't support it. When they break, all those
=20 glyphs scattered through the text are ugly and distracting.
Never, ever expect hackers to be able to read closed proprietary document fo
rmats like Microsoft Word. Most hackers react to these about as well as you
would to having a pile of steaming pig manure dumped on your doorstep.
If you're sending mail from a Windows machine, turn off Microsoft's stupid "
Smart Quotes" feature. This is so you avoid sprinkling garbage characters th
rough your mail.
If you're using a graphical-user-interface mail client, (such as Netscape Me
ssenger, MS Outlook, or their ilk) beware that it may violate these rules wh
en used with its default settings. Most such clients have a menu-based "View
Source" command. Use this on something in your sent-mail folder to check th
at you are sending plain text without unnecessary attached crud.
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