[OT] Posting etiquette

[Joe Rhett]

You are pretty much exactly in the same line of thinking I am.  There are
times for each style.  Trying to dictate a certain style (and calling
someone an idiot for not agreeing with your opinions on the topic) are
neither very effective.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:57:33PM -0600, Marc Powell wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> What is the point of this entire discussion? The Internet is not the
> same as it was 10 years ago when we all used mutt/pine/elm. Some people
> are going to top post either because they find it convenient, their mail
> client doesn't properly prefix the quoted content or that's the only way
> they know how to respond (thanks Microsoft). On the other hand, some
> people will reply in context, at relevant locations within the quoted
> text. Likewise, some people are going to snip content down to the
> minimum necessary and others are not. No matter how much discussion
> ensues on this matter, unless you intend to force every list member to
> read and abide by a posting rules document and moderate this list to
> approve or reject every post based on those rules, I personally find
> this entire discussion irrelevant. New users to this list (and there are
> always new users) are not going to troll the archives looking for this
> thread. If anything comes of this, I think the best we could hope for
> would be a posting guidelines document linked off of
> http://www.nagios.org/mailinglist.php and perhaps a monthly mailing of
> that same document to the list but that's it. It's not a foolproof
> solution and no matter what, the things you're complaining about will
> still happen.
> 
> The same points apply to HTML v.s. plaintext email as far as I am
> concerned. While I prefer to send in plaintext, when I respond from some
> mobile devices I just don't have an option to choose.
> 
> --
> Marc
> 
> 
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Joe Rhett                                                      Chief Geek
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