Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:49:17 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: <MATTHEW.GRAYBOSCH@cshore.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Email Etiquette on this list Message-ID: <15365.16317.286173.652889@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <200111281441.AA430047422@cshore.com> References: <200111281441.AA430047422@cshore.com>
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MATTHEW.GRAYBOSCH <MATTHEW.GRAYBOSCH@cshore.com> types: > "In that case, why bother sending the previous writing *at all*? If > people really want to read it, it's in the archives." > > The only time *I* want to bother with the archives is to avoid asking a question that has already been answered. I'd prefer to see what you're replying to as I'm reading your reply. Ack. Please teach your mail reader to wrap lines at a reasonable length. Under 100 would be nice. Under 80 would be even nicer. I suspect most people agree with you. I suspect that most want to read a discussion as a discussion, not a collection of paragraphs in vaguely reverse chronological order. Taking that as a given, proper etiquette - which you use to show your respect for the people you are dealing with - is to edit the included message into a discussion. Failing to do that is telling everying you don't think they - or possibly your writing - are worth the effort involved in creating a coherent document. Just dumping in the text of the message you are replying to tells them you don't even think the disk space and network bandwidth they are paying for is worthy of any consideration. So if you can't take the time to turn the message you are sending into a coherent document, at least be polite enough to spare us the burden of the text that isn't worth your time to edit. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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