On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 21:42:00 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote:
> ...
>Notice how you can clearly see what was your comment, and how my
>responses directly relate to parts of your comment?
>
But only if your MUA distingushes quoted material. Am I a Luddite for
eschewing HTML coloring (and even remembering that HTML was (early)
intended for semantic as opposed to presentation markup?)
>For a very long time, email, and news, was some of the larger content on
>the Internet. (Times have changed.) So, many servers, particularly
>news servers, instituted ratios of comment vs quoted content.
>
In this thread contributors have asserted that netiquette was intended
for USENET rather than person-to-person email. But LISTSERV more
closely resembles a newsgroup than targeted email. So the USENET
netiquette should remain applicable
>It has long been considered better netiquette to both prune quoted
>content to just what's relevant and to put your response /after/ what
>your commenting about.
Earlier, I lauded threaded viewers without supplying examples such as:
http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2020-January/thread.html
https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2020-01/
Good structure. LISTSERV should embrace it.
Oliver North learned that distorting or concealing antecedents doesn't work.
-- gil
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