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

["Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,
I joined this list to get information on operating the RaQ
web servers, and to LEARN.
I like your style<grin>, and I also value your
comments.<seriously><no grin>.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 3:00 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Re: Posting Style/Netiquette
(Was: RE: [cobalt-users]frontpage not asking for password)


> 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.
>

I like it! But, I need an email client that can construct a
thread from past postings. Then we
don't have to keep sending these long messages that contain
the history of the thread.
Do you have any suggestions?

> >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.

Your responses to the questions on this list are very good.
I want you to help me
with my troublesome issues, and at sometime maybe I can help
you. That's what it is all about!

>
> 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>.
>
I can understand the smile, what may be easy to you may be
difficult for most!

> 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.
>
I was just hitting reply!!! I have seen mail list that
monitor that sort of thing and
will not allow it!, I don't remember when or where.

> 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.
>

Yes I am in the good old US.

> >So that makes 4 cents ;-).
>
> 6c now, and rising <very big grin>.
>
OK, now that I am illuminated on the subject of Internet
Mail List, I guess we are
back to 4 cents :-(.
But I will cheer up and cooperate, this is not the first
time I caught hell from an old-timer. :-).

> Jeff
>
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> Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
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