Guidelines for answering questions on the mailing list.

Try to make your answer broad enough that people other than the original poster may benefit from it. If you consider your answer to have broad interest, you may want to post it to the mailing list instead of replying directly to the individual who asked. In this case, please make sure that your answer is not a duplication of a previous answer.

Try to summarize the essential part of the question in your reply, but don't feel obliged to quote the whole question.