On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:24:54 -0300, in gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user
"'Jeremias Ramirez' via BeagleBoard"
<beagleboard-/[email protected]> wrote:
>Dennis, to be honest, the quotes I see are only three little dots at the
>end of the mail that I simply ignore. I don't know where are you reading
>this, but I didn't realize that quotes may be annoying.
>My apologies.
>
I read via the gmane NNTP server. According to my newsreader, the post
I'd responded to, and trimmed, had 1520 LINES of text in it.
I suspect whatever client you are using is simply masking quoted
material by not displaying it, but it is none-the-less being included in
replies.
And... I wasn't really targetting you with the complaint. It's a
general gripe I find in forums that didn't grow up with Usenet etiquette
(or "pay per minute" connections).
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt
Section 2.1.1 for individual email (ie: one-to-one messages)
"""
- 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.
"""
Section 3.1.1 for lists and Usenet (one-to-many messages)
"""
- If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you
summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just
enough text of the original to give a context. This will make
sure readers understand when they start to read your response.
Since NetNews, especially, is proliferated by distributing the
postings from one host to another, it is possible to see a
response to a message before seeing the original. Giving context
helps everyone. But do not include the entire original!
"""
Unfortunately... Then came Microsoft Outlook -- which sought to produce
a business ethic in which quoted material is the equivalent of a photocopy
attached to a snail-mail letter as a courtesy for the recipient (who should
already be familiar with the content, the copy just saves them looking up
archived mails for any details they forgot), and the entire reply is
provided "above" the copy.
--
Dennis L Bieber
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