Garren, On 24 January 2014 08:45, Garren Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is good to have these discussions, my only concern is that we scare off > people that are worried about sending a message to the mailing lists and > getting it wrong. There was an email earlier today where that happened to > some degree. I'm all for some helpful guidelines but we don't want to end > up coming across as those people that complain about what way a message is > sent. scaring people is a no-no-go. That was definitely not the intention of the discussion. So, I would like to write a summary to all lists with some easy to understand and helpful guidelines. I think they should be really liberal-minded. Unfortunately I will not make that happen today but can make it tomorrow. If anyone else wants to take this part just go ahead ... Thanks a lot for pointing this out! Cheers Andy > On 23 Jan 2014, at 9:27 PM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 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 > > -- Andy Wenk Hamburg - Germany RockIt! http://www.couchdb-buch.de http://www.pg-praxisbuch.de GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
