Please Remember Netiquette <snip>

Arjan Geven arjangeven at gmail.com
Thu Aug 11 08:12:51 UTC 2005


On 8/11/05, hzs202 at gmail.com <hzs202 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Let's please remember RFC 1855 "Netiquette Guidelines" so that we may
> keeps each others mail servers as clean as possible. As you all know
> these bytes add up. So please <snip> any relevent details from the
> quoted text in your reply.

> Best,
> --
> Hakim Singhji

Especially in a newbie-friendly list like this, we cannot and should
not expect people to really follow these guidelines. Nor should we
care too much, anyway.

Although Netiquette is nice and fun and all, I honestly do not care
about the few wasted bits of an untrimmed quote, top-posting or
whatever small netiquette rules they thought about when composing
these guidelines. Although I'm a guy who usually demands good form and
design, in such cases as mailinglists, content is way more important
than whatever style it has been written in.

Anyway, there was a big discussion about this not too long ago (two
months?) on this list, with basically the same conclusion. Netiquette
is nice, but not -that- important :-).

Regards,
Arjan Geven.




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