On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 7:14 PM, Lars Kruse <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ron, > > > Am Sat, 17 Jun 2017 13:35:59 -0400 > schrieb [email protected]: > >> [..] >> I prefere if others leave the full text in their emails. >> I prefere to not delete text in my own replies. >> I cannot make that decision about my replies? > > I could image, that Luke would like the participants of this mailinglist to > use > a style similar to the one defined in RFC1985 ("Netiquette", see section > 2.1.1):
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt RFC 1855 not 1955. took a few minutes to find it. section 2.1.1 is a little dated, but 95% relevant. interestingly it contains no specific advice for mailing list interaction. this example contains good advice on mailing list etiquette: http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php please read - and follow and adhere to - section 9, ron. please also follow the link which leads here and read it: http://howto-pages.org/posting_style/ > Be brief without being overly terse. When replying to a message, > include enough original material to be understood but no more. It > is extremely bad form to simply reply to a message by including > all the previous message: edit out all the irrelevant material. > > > Since Luke maintains this mailinglist, I find it to be acceptable, that he > can define the communication policy of this list, if he prefers so. i do. i used to be quite lax about it but i feel it is becoming important. > Specifically in this case he is following a widely used style - even though we > are all aware of the fact, that there are different communities or contexts > out > there using very different styles with regard to quoting. for a "chatty" list such as a support self-help (e.g. alcoholics anonymous) group, top-posting would be the norm as most people would interact with either single-sentence (top-posted) replies of encouragement, or they would write massive walls-of-text to which it would be typically be perfectly fine to top-post. this list is not such a list. this is a technical list and it can get very busy and very complex very quickly. following interaction rules that have been developed over many decades for technical lists would be a good idea. http://howto-pages.org/posting_style/ l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
