Re: [offtopic] Prevayler-Discussion Digest, Vol 43, Issue 7

Thanks, Angelo.

I usually delete old stuff every 5 mails into the conversation or so.
Old habits.

I believe this problem is not specific to the Prevayler list and I
dont think an appeal to consciousness will solve the issue at this day
and age.

A more reasonable set of netiquette rules, I think, is:
- Always use plaintext, except when rich-text is absolutely necessary.
- Stop using digests for this list. Get every email.
- Use GMail or any other mail reader that will group mails in a
conversation and fold quoted text.

Klaus


On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Angelo Schneider
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hm :)
>
> seems times are changing ... to much.
>
> Once when we invented eMail, it was common to DELETE all old text which is not needed anymore for citation.
>
> Now everyone adds an answer to a text on the top. Top Answer Bottom Full Quote or something like this it was called.
>
> Please, for mailing lists, especially for those who receive digests, like me: remove all text you are not commenting on.
>
> It is so much more easy to read then ... and the digest is 90% smaller.
>
> Sorry, I don't want to "teach" anyone, but when the internet was "invented" people also "agreed" on netiquette. I assume most people are to young to ever have heard about this, but this site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style will give you an idea.
>
> Keep in mind, we are on a MAILING LIST: everyone gets every email. Usually in the order it was sent in. So it is a waste of everything: energy, bandwidth, storage and most importantly: TIME in RL of the reader who has to check if more important stuff is following ... and is disappointed to read only AGAIN a quoted part that contains other quoted parts of other messages that contain quoted parts again of all the messages he already has read!
>
> Sorry for this, but on this mailing list for some reason this "modern way of quoting" is abused to the extreme.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Angelo
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