New members are very welcome and valued whether through gradual accretion or project influx such as GSOC's. In order to ensure messaging efficiency and clarity...
- Reply *below* what others have written. Do not "top post". - Trim out and *delete* irrelavant portions of what others have written, so to clearly include only that part of which you are replying to. Do not "bulk quote" chains of replies. - *Interleave* your replies within the physical lines others have written so that what specific part you are replying to is clear. "Reply in context." - Use "text/plain UTF-8" encoding, disable all "HTML" when sending. - Wrap message lines at roughly 68-72 characters long. - Be aware of how changing subject line, and reply-to and references headers can break threading, and use it carefully.
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Thanks.