On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, David Boyes wrote:
Hi,
I don't believe that everyone believes in pruning out everything. Many
people reply at the top. If for no other reason than replies can be
kept
in context. I don't want to start a war about email etiquette here,
just
to say that I believe that not everyone agrees with points 3 & 4
below.
I think more of us have simply given up trying to get people to do 3 &
4. Most of the "modern" workstation mail readers make it quite difficult
to do in a reasonable manner,
I have found that it's corporate setups that make this hard as most
MUAs still support proper quoting.
and those of us still reading mail with
MAILBOOK and Pine (with proper mail editors like Emacs) just can't stem
the tide.
There are times where I really miss low bandwidth communications, where
the size of transfers actually mattered. That drove most of the
reasoning behind pruning out unnecessary stuff, and I think it helped
the clarity of the conversation. But, I'm old and cranky now, so I'll
shut up.
So what about a good old usenet news group instead of a mailing list?
Are news readers better? I mean I have no idea. rtin 's the most
modern I know (ignoring the netscape3 I have forgotten about).
We could also do the weekly FAQ post there (not that we could not do
here if someone would volunteer to write it), to come back to the
original subject.
Cheers,
Bjoern
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Bjoern A. Zeeb Stop bit received. Insert coin for new game.
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