-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Mark,
On 1/24/14, 10:18 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 09:24:41PM -0500, Howard W. Smith, Jr. > wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 2:08 PM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> >> wrote: >>> Either people don't read the rules, or they do not understand >>> the rule, or they just ignore it. >> >> I agree. As a tomcat/tomee user, I joined the list, primarily, to >> listen in on topics (that interest me), so I learned, very >> quickly, that top-posting is not preferred, here. > > I may have said this before, but: too bad there is no standard > "List-Rules:" header to provide machine-readable hints, so that a > conforming UA could remember them from the subscription response > or latest-read message and at least give the user some > suggestions. Rules like "no attachments" could be acted on by the > UA; rules like "no top-posting" require human judgment but could be > advertized by the UI. Slow down, maverick: let mail UA's properly handle existing standards, first. Then invent new ones. So we'll be ready for this kind of thing in maybe AD 2197. Just what we need: a bunch of nerds all using Eudora, Thunderbird, and Pine yelling at the whole world of people still using Apple Mail, Outlook, etc. whose UAs don't auto-handle those standards. We'd just be moving the problem from users who won't follow the rules to UAs who won't follow the rules. Also, it's hard to enforce "context-specific replies" (which, to me, are the most useful) rather than strict top-posting versus bottom-posting. That being said, it would be really cool if it were practical to have such list hints. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJS4sd0AAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYN9YP/iDsH0ZVa5QVmA4dnXkKVpp+ nF/MEhvc5ZjmQkg+e+zOJdJzgbcDMJqbEP5iLC0VWUQdEdUYhh3J1uibRbDOhcXp Q9GTn9V/EqEG45g8sPZ8qc7ZynWLytJNX5HIRZ1nLTNOQLbNGy1IuE+9Vyf+r3+8 fGcNiGdZvy1l5+Xi+9j5vJmz1YyEShvzNGGBwW9E4KzLSI6j/njTGYIj3FtGDJYA QzMvky1X++ig0NNCDQRHYu/MYPdy2jVfWtetBUK++tStfeMvDTSpjSE/R6xg0cdR jeh1Q1uCOgNNuL9Fb+w8jMGIZA5agLCLy+1ehgCu3BqwycijdY9dHcJedKNJDuO5 OsK6CktE/N2XiDdYif4d8yGQ16xnEFR1OGyIfKfSDEnqFtxIo7pbOluwOhC0XgIz jfN/yYi52JFw7hIsfQuvXoWZ3QZeEbXJWTUcW8quBaWY+xPMCPPi544YFTRoBjJr 1ylY4rcHH+fa78gYX29bK2t8dUG7/0bsZdOs49Ps6Q2XiZE7wqT6xJT30Wow+2w6 gUBMBaD5Zynl/wigExN5tPZMWV9KrW0RNtXuz6JRI5lUW/P30CrPNIpUTH4szfNC LuZFeMc1L20U5AwykbzMlkGzR4GB/1TuExvESVKt0Ux9Q/k9nOXBQ15yjvgd4leq 5ChZHDksqLMIXqcADs3L =OiyX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
