On Jan 23, 2014, at 1:03 AM, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just following http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 is good. Etiquette changes over time, and this RFC is nearly 20 years old. Complaining about top-posting is very "Get off my lawn, kids!" I try to inline-post, except if I'm composing on a phone. But I don't much mind what style people use, as long as they don't quote the entire message and then add a line somewhere in the middle of it. > 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. Technology changes too. I remember the days of UUCP-based Netnews, but it hasn't been that way in ages. Out-of-order receipt is no longer an issue, and nearly all mail clients show threads, so it's not hard to see the context of a reply. > But do not include the entire original! I can't help noticing you included Andy's entire original, Benoit :) —Jens
