> 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.
True...I'll blame Micros~1 for that. Outlook doesn't make that easy. > Add: > - No HTML > - Short signature block (keep the quotes and such crap out) Agreed. And yes, my signature violates that very rule. Guilty as charged, but not repentant. > > 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. Agreed as well. I think that it has some important use in plain text regardless. Titles of books, newspapers, etc. when referenced. I'm just soliciting for some conventions seen, not to "improve" plain text messaging. > > 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. :) No comment. > 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. Agreed. Again not trying to "improve" the body of plain text messages as a whole. Just looking for what others may have seen in their experiences. And I don't think I'm going to repent for my signature...I've seen much worse... just look at this one, found on this very list (greeked to protect the guilty): > -- > Tue Mar 25 10:35:01 EST 2003 > 10:35:01 up 3 days, 21:22, 4 users, load average: 0.42, 0.53, 0.51 > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > | __ __ | xxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxx | > | / ,, /| |'-. | http://xxx.xxxxxxx.xxx | > | .\__/ || | | |=================================| > | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | xxxxxx xxxx | > | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | |'. `\ | | | icq: xxxxxxx | > | ;"""/ / | | | | > | xxx ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: xxxx-xxx-xxx | > | ' `-`' " " | xxxxxxxx, xxx xxx xxx, xx | > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > linux user:xxxxxx * xxx xxx * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting > machine no:xxxxxx * xx xxx * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** > > My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells down > by the seashore. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
