Proper ettiquette for posting messages
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Fri Jan 2 23:36:41 UTC 2004
Fritz Whittington wrote:
> On or about 2004-01-02 14:17, Rick Stevens whipped out a trusty #2
> pencil and scribbled:
>
> > Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> >
> >> At 13:42 1/2/2004, you [[[the OP]]] wrote:
> >>
> >>> My first attempt at posting messages
> >>>
> (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-January/msg00008.html)
> >>> gave
> >>> me what I wanted - a solution. But I do not appear to have the reply
> >>> part of
> >>> this figured out, as the responses are not placed where I want them
> >>> to go.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> This is a specific featuer to your mail client. LookOut and LookOut
> >> Express will always place the cursor for reply above the quoted text
> >> (top-posting), which is great for one-on-one conversations but murder
> >> for mailing lists and newsgroups (one-to-many communication). There
> >> is no way to change that, I think, just more work for you. Eudora is
> >> a lot more flexible and respects the standards.
> >>
> >>> Is there an ettiquette document? How should replies be formatted?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> All I can suggest off the top of my head is:
> >>
> >> http://www.charlescurley.com/netiquette.html
> >>
> >> Doubtless there are others.
> >
> >
> > Try http://www.rhil.net/docs/rhil-guide.thml
> >
> > It was written for the redhat-install-list, but it's valid for this one,
> > too.
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>
> A few things at http://www.rhil.net/docs/rhil-guide.html might need
> revision or explanation. For instance, MIME is a no-no, but your own
> posting contains:
>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> and
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>
> (which I don't disagree with in the least!) I'm just saying it doesn't
> fit what the guide says...
You're right. It needs updating. I didn't write it, but I know the
chap who did and I'll see that it gets updated.
> The guide also says to disable quoted-printable, and use 8-bit transfer,
> but you are using 7-bit transfer.
Crikey! Am I? I'll have to check on that.
> It also seems to me that anyone running either Fedora or even (gasp!)
> Windows would have ready access to a MIME-compliant (or at least
> MIME-tolerant, in the case of text) MUA. Would someone running Fedora
> actually be reading his email on a PDP-11 using the 1983 version of
> Berkeley mail? :-( Even the elm of that vintage was MIME-tolerant.
Hey, I used one of those! I even used PDP-8s. I tend to agree with
you, but the original netiquette guides were written when many people
only had access to ASR/KSR33 and 35 teletypes and mail was transferred
over HoneyDanBer uucp lines...hence the 72-character line limit request
(oh MAN, am I dating myself or what?).
And yes, I myself violate the "4-line .signature" recommendation (mine
are generally 6 lines--automatically generated). I probably should fix
that. After all, it's just a template.
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