Hi Andy, Thats a great idea, look forward to the guidelines because I could use the help.
Cheers Garren On 24 Jan 2014, at 10:26 AM, Andy Wenk <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
