Hello Abe, Actually there is a RFC describing Netiquette Guidelines from 1995 (rfc 1855), with guidelines still valid today. See https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1855
Best regards, Pim van Stam > On 16 Dec 2022, at 16:05, Abraham Y. Chen <ayc...@avinta.com> wrote: > > Dear Bill, Et al.: > > 0) Ever since I signed up to the NANOG List, I have been getting complaints > about my eMail style, format, etc. Since I could not find any document that > clearly stated the guidelines and no one cared about providing an explicit > lead, it has been a very frustrating experience. As I explained previously, > my best understanding of an eMail is that it is an electronic equivalent of > the traditional postal letter. We should start from following the old > business correspondence protocol and then enhance it by taking advantage of > the available electronic facility. Beyond that, an eMail is a literary work > from an individual writer's own "creativity". A receiver can do anything > possible about handling an eMail, but should refrain from imposing "rules" to > the writer, unless there is a mutual consent. From time to time in the past, > I did get questions from various contacts about what was I doing. Upon > describing my rationales, most accepted them. Some even started to mimic my > approaches. However, feedback on this List was exceptionally strong, it was > quite distracting. Thus, I tried my best to minimize the rough spots, so that > we could carry on the technical discussions. > > 1) "On 2022-12-01 23:54, nanog wrote: ... 1) Your emails do not conform to > the list standards (changing subject lines with every reply making it > impossible to digest or follow.) ... ": > > The above from you was the most recent feedback that I got. It stirred up > my curiosity on this topic again. Since I had some slack time during the past > few days, I decided to look into the "threading". I have been using > ThunderBird eMail client software ever since its introduction, but never > bothered about using its Message Threads facility because my own subject line > tagging technique seemed to be sufficient. After a bit of fiddling, I was > able to get ThunderBird to display messages organized in threads. Below is > one such example. As you can see, my practice of continuously prefixing > timestamps to the "Subject" line of messages in a thread seems to conform to > ThunderBird's mechanism! Now, I would appreciate very much to see an example > of how your eMail system handles the message threads. So that we can compare > notes. Thanks, > > > Q. E. D. > > Happy Holidays! > > Abe (2022-12-16 10:04 EST) > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > www.avast.com
