Re: List Mail Formatting Netiquette [ie: 870 QVO]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2022, grarpamp wrote:

> On 4/7/22, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I answer below in bold blue for instance...
>> for better seeing my answers....
>
> While you may think that helps people, in reality it does
> not, and it actually makes peoples mails much worse for the
> proper text based email using world, and sits among other
> random formats that randoms try to stuff down other peoples
> mailboxes, and they might not even show up in search engines,
> archives, onscreen, phones, etc. Read up on classic proper
> email formatting netiquette where, for very good reasons,
> it tells everyone to... turn off HTML mail, and to quit top
> posting and quit bulk quoting, and to trim what you're
> replying to down to only the relevant minimum context while
> writing your replies underneath that, and to delete addressees
> already present within list addresses, and to quit SHOUTING
> ALL CAPS, and to wrap non-code lines at around 68 chars,
> and to not break header threading (in-reply-to and references)
> when replying.  This reminder actually for all lists and senders.

Hear, hear! Well said: I mainly work for a largely Windows-centric 
organisation who has outsourced its email to the Microsoft Office 365 
cloud-based services. I'm rather fed up with getting emails from 
colleagues and having query "what's underlined in blue?", "where's this 
text you've highlighted in red?", etc since I use Alpine as my MUA.

Andy

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