On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 21:42:00 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > ... >Notice how you can clearly see what was your comment, and how my >responses directly relate to parts of your comment? > But only if your MUA distingushes quoted material. Am I a Luddite for eschewing HTML coloring (and even remembering that HTML was (early) intended for semantic as opposed to presentation markup?)
>For a very long time, email, and news, was some of the larger content on >the Internet. (Times have changed.) So, many servers, particularly >news servers, instituted ratios of comment vs quoted content. > In this thread contributors have asserted that netiquette was intended for USENET rather than person-to-person email. But LISTSERV more closely resembles a newsgroup than targeted email. So the USENET netiquette should remain applicable >It has long been considered better netiquette to both prune quoted >content to just what's relevant and to put your response /after/ what >your commenting about. Earlier, I lauded threaded viewers without supplying examples such as: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2020-January/thread.html https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2020-01/ Good structure. LISTSERV should embrace it. Oliver North learned that distorting or concealing antecedents doesn't work. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN