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Email etiquette question.
Is it ok to reply with "thank you", or "good" or "well done".
Or is it just better to keep inboxes clean.
Started by flybywire on
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by 10 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
If it is important to the sender to know that the email was received... .
It completely depends on the email.
So I think it is ok in that sense.
The one major positive thing about simple responces like that is knowing the person has read and seen your email .
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A lot of the coding I do at work (when lucky enough to be assigned some...) is usually individual projects. As I only run source control locally, what are the best practices for working with source control and generally working in a software development...
Started by dotnetdev on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Etiquette in general varies wildly from team to team, but here are three tips (from strongest.
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I just ran into an answer in which the author included a link to a PDF book that was licensed only to them. I'm pretty sure this is copyrighted material and the author does not want copies of the book to be freely available on the web.
What is the proper...
Started by Turp on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
If you do have the rights to post it, attribute it appropriately If you don't have rights... .
(or you could send them an email to remove it.)
If you don't have the rights to post it, don't .
Call Randy "Macho Man" Savage and have him slap into their slim jim .
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After answering a question the other day I came across an unusual situation.
The content of the answers received prompted the original poster to change edit their question (both title and content) such that it significantly changed its nature and substance...
Started by Reto Meier on
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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
The problem of older answers no longer being relevant is a problem, but up to now I think the community has seen it as the answerer'... .
The original asker of the question is generally allowed to change the substance of their question at their discretion .
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If you were going to set up a Email Alerts for the customers of your website to subscribe to, what rules of etiquette ought to be followed?
I can think of a few off the top of my head:
Users can Opt-Out Text Only (Or tasteful Remote Images) Not sent out...
Started by George Stocker on
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by 10 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
It's not merely etiquette it is United States law:
From the CAN-SPAM Act :
It requires that your email credit card info) Avoid attachments Frequency Etiquette
I think that more important than 'not sent out.
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I'm building a search engine (for fun) and it has just struck me that potentially my little project might wreak havok by clicking on ads and all sorts of problems.
So what are the guidelines for good webcrawler 'Etiquette'?
Things that spring to mind:...
Started by Harry on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
You don't read only the robots....
If you spider only HTML text of a page, then in most cases you won't get ad links there - they are generated on client using javascript .
Also, you don't have to worry about ads.
Don't follow links marked as rel="nofollow".
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I'm using a BSD API to build my own API and I'm wondering if there is any restriction when I will release my own API in term of license choice, packaging, distribution ...
I'm also curious about what do you guys think is the better way to pay homage to...
Started by wj on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Read the licen[s/c]e
2, Splash screen or about box for major stuff, in readme/manual for minor stuff
In general you need to read each license (for each imported library) carefully to get a general understanding, if you need specific legal advice I... .
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I'm considering writing a simple web scraping application to extract information from a website that does not seem to specifically prohibit this.
I've checked for other alternatives (eg RSS, web service) to get this information, but there are none available...
Started by Ash on
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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Took a few minutes to ....
To be generous, I placed a one second wait after each page .
For instance, I had to write a scraper about a week ago to crawl several hundred pages .
This really depends on what you're scraping, and how much of it you're scraping .
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Edwardian Etiquette
[color=brown]"The Edwardian era was a time ruled by etiquette. Ladies wore spotless dresses, changing their costume several times in the day. Gentlemen wore impeccably tailored suits. Groom was almost a religion. Rules of etiquette...
Started by passenger 47 (gary) on
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by 9 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at europefreeforum):
During the Victorian and Edwardian eras in Britain the rules and rituals of etiquette became so complex for royalty and other members of the aristocracy.....
About Edwardian and Victorian etiquette for some time, this is what I have learnt.
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This may be a silly question but what is the proper etiquette as to when to start your meal. Also who starts the introductions
Started by Patrickprincess on
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by 11 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at disboards):
Introductions have never been an issue - someone starts and soon its over .
For your etiquette.
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