I must admit I don't actually understand the instructions of the mail.
OK, I shall reply in text mode.
My mail reader then automatically quotes the mail starting with "> ". Am I supposed to leave that in?
yes.
Then there's this "--- BEGIN VOTE ---" block; I guess that part is somehow automatically evaluated (or else, why the strict format requirements), so it's crucial that this is formatted correctly. But as I said, the mail will be quoted (unless I'm supposed to delete that quote, but then, the text asks me to *add* my suggestions to the list, so I guess not). So am I supposed to remove the quote marks ("> ") from that part? Or am I supposed to add the quote marks in front of my suggestion?
just type in your suggestion. Stop bothering about ">", it will be parsed correctly as long as you are inside that "--- BEGIN VOTE ---" block. It doesn't matter if you add ">" or not.
Or am I supposed to leave the quote marks in the list, but add my suggestions without quote marks? Or am I supposed to copy the whole block unquoted to the end, and then add my suggestions to the "list" (which just contains "soylentnews.org" at the moment)?
Do not overcomplicate. Do not do any extra edits. Minimize your work. Just type the letters with your suggestion and that [9] before it, don't change anything else. For example like this:
[9] superus.com
[9] evenbetternews.com
Should "soylentnews.org" remain there, or should I replace it with my suggestion?
Leave it there. Just add yours.
Or maybe I misunderstood, and I should just add my suggestions in the form "[9] suggestion.com" to the very end of the mail, ignoring the form completely?
You got it almost right. You do that inside the "--- BEGIN VOTE ---" block, not at the end of email.
(Score: 3, Informative) by cosurgi on Monday April 14 2014, @03:27PM
yes.
just type in your suggestion. Stop bothering about ">", it will be parsed correctly as long as you are inside that "--- BEGIN VOTE ---" block. It doesn't matter if you add ">" or not.
Do not overcomplicate. Do not do any extra edits. Minimize your work. Just type the letters with your suggestion and that [9] before it, don't change anything else. For example like this:
[9] superus.com
[9] evenbetternews.com
Leave it there. Just add yours.
You got it almost right. You do that inside the "--- BEGIN VOTE ---" block, not at the end of email.
you are welcome.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday April 14 2014, @07:05PM
Thank you (and also mrcoolbp) for the clarification.
Now I just have to find a name that sounds good, but is not yet taken. Everything I try seems to already exist ...
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by cosurgi on Monday April 14 2014, @09:58PM
I know your pain. Took me about an hour to find something interesting... I used thefreedictionary to find synonyms of words I thought about.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday April 26 2014, @05:57PM
Well, I ended up not submitting any because all those I could think of that I considered good were already taken.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 23 2014, @08:33AM
Overcomplicated is exactly the idea of setting up a vote-by-mail system, in 2014, and for a single use.
Why not use URLs with single use tokens giving access to a vote page?
If you have plans of some liquid democracy for SN, that is again predating the main goal (news) and, sorry, not a nice experiment.
I know how majordomo works, but please..just no.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 23 2014, @11:49AM
Seconded.
The au pirate party would have helped if asked
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Wednesday April 23 2014, @05:08PM
So can we suggest names or not? The only email I ever had said no. How come?
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