On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:54:28PM -0500, Stone, Timothy wrote: > It goes without saying that there are well-defined traditions in > posting to newsgroups and mailing lists. Reading the many FAQs on the > web one will find the common rules:
You forgot the first one in your post: WRAP at 72 characters. > - Do not top-post > > - DO NOT SHOUT Add: - No HTML - Short signature block (keep the quotes and such crap out) > > But what about some of these that seem to go undocumented: > > /Italics/ > > _Underline_ > > *Bold|Emphasis* You physically can't use true italics, underline, or bold in a plain text e-mail. If you want to use funny symbols around them like you did, use them sparingly and you won't annoy too many people. The more you try and use fancy formatting, the worse it gets. What we're looking for is content, not how pretty your e-mail looks. If it's not absolutely relevant to the question you're asking, leave it out. > Ok, the normal ones. What about foreign language characters? Umlats, > accents and tildes. Any comments these? What have any of the readers > here seen? Plain text doesn't have special characters. If you want to emulate them because your name or city or whatever has them, go ahead. They should be in the SHORT signature block anyway. The primary language of this list is English. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
