Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/07

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Subject: SV: [Leica] Re: Column width of messages
From: "DUNCAN" <0709433420@euromail.se>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 18:07:28 +0100

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.]
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