On Mon, 2020-04-27 at 15:39 -0700, stan via users wrote:
You won't get excommunicated for not following the guidelines, but you are less likely to get help. :-)
That's certainly true. There are some quite knowledgeable people on the internet (not just this mailing list), who are quite willing to help where they can. Some of them will just delete messages that are difficult to follow. And it's always in your best interest to make it easy to read something when you're asking for help.