> In this thread contributors have asserted that netiquette was > intended for USENET rather than person-to-person email.
Yes, but the assertion was bogus. Look at, e.g., RFC 1895 Netiquette Guidelines. > Am I a Luddite for eschewing HTML coloring No. Not all change is progress. For the last few decades Internet players have been in a race to the bottom. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 11:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Quote style (was: ... Passive FTP ... ) 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://secure-web.cisco.com/1ltfC1jxPMatj4UMDV4byfYEpyLwZEGOhI9Kk1fZ59XLKhEQYUHT5N6i3YPtIT8b5X7Ay9syBoAe6NE1E-anjViaG7zTMOxGvyXucgqD2lqzQtq_suqDobkLzr3W-B3PkUQIWXxKPGp3h_OvD4DQWr9SUd7E9Hlr0379uR54Os9IdfR-H5jT7YtSHz7_GwJbcyn4JU2W8-CxpmoNG2hnEwsOJit8MWzyDkP9QbDMS6Oj-xMg-jo78LbXaFONmdRrDhB6hNCXTHVeuCnGrm0gWoENdjGrIotIy_39KHozHyWh5Zi6RFlKY71E6Ll0ehDGQXI7JSP7cYvAf6qmP-dX6IXFhk9BuOgHkPD0n6kBwc94N_UVdfYyJeyixwSl9IzUymjeCjN8ohPJmQWf62AY3uIWVy89-8WoMo0QFCTiAV8RWPvY-pGZq-4qxEyEM62A0/http%3A%2F%2Fmm.icann.org%2Fpipermail%2Ftz%2F2020-January%2Fthread.html https://secure-web.cisco.com/1nlSkBbnZpha0-MBvJCbKXACDOi59IdYKrWoz3T5dEUNhWklknJZgFkJpm5av7U1wKOzNDmxBlGcPq2HkM90Ni1owmY8iUpYCVt6Xq2tUkP41I3rj3yoMKNNW-146HTDhhBPiCpH5Pr_I_FHtYpuBs7ocNUsEnWBlVRzC05kXEQKKiwp20TwLpzlJlhJLs3Vh-0qlf8d6vEXCZMFTenwhbT15CjKDeg2tNsYbNxaIS6bf5uKXJ88dPk9g0REhxBzPe6s0m7KgxYrWmaSZhJlgytAJtFUCKEyRUf9R4pdkGsc5I_BfioIFPnM-AuK8B9Zr3NzYvEwfuxBzXGBkeSSFYSSc7t9zOsNPKL91QN8ZAAl0R8jj04qjQyDMlJU_nWsgPjprUSvMtNvlS11riepgyKRwWLKoc1wlRHTbghRKR0XAMFSiJgpiHTixs_BRuoouwinB3SDKJpubt4KaG0VKjQ/https%3A%2F%2Fcurl.haxx.se%2Fmail%2Farchive-2020-01%2F 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
