Re: [cobalt-users] Re: Posting Style/Netiquette (Was: RE: [cobalt-users]frontpage not asking for password)

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:36 AM 3/16/00 -0500, you wrote:

> There should be an accepted
> protocol  though.

There is.  The accepted protocol, developed over a period exceeding ten 
years, is to interleave quotes and replies, just as I'm doing in this 
email.  I do occasionally depart from it to put a short reply at the top, 
as many of us experienced in lists and newsgroups do.  However, the key is 
"experience"; knowing when it's the best way to answer.

> Maybe we should vote on it.

Go ahead.  If you end up posting in a way that makes it hard for me to 
understand what's being asked, I just won't bother answering.

Those of us who read over 400 emails and posts a day have to have some 
method of limiting what we read/reply to.  I choose to do it based on 
what's easy <smile>.

And if you keep quoting whole posts the amount of mail to download gets 
larger and larger.  Eventually I put you into my killfile and I never even 
see your questions (and replies), if you continue to post small additions 
to large quoted files.

You must be in the U.S.  People in many other countries pay for every 
minute of time they download useless "tails" contining information they've 
already read.

> So that makes 4 cents ;-).

6c now, and rising <very big grin>.

Jeff

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Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>