Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeff, while I agree with you in general, this is going to be a tough one to crack. Every day, new users without any knowledge of netiquette, are logging on to the net. As they make mistakes, others who should and do know better, relax their standards in response and you end up back at square one. I think the net is a little young to get this irritated over email practices. Ideally it should work the way you said, but...... - -Duncan When you quote the entire message you're responding to at the end of a message, maybe with a little line of dashes above it, you're not just wasting bandwidth and archive space; you're not just creating visual clutter; you're implicitly telling your recipients that you're just too busy (or something) to show them the respect of putting in the work of selecting the parts of the previous thread you're responding to, supplying concise attributions, and interleaving just the text you're responding to (set off as quoted) so as to make it easy for the reader to know just what's going on. It just seems lazy and disrespectful to me. [Here Endeth the Old Crank's Email Manners Diatribe.] - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html