- From: Arjun Ray <aray@q2.net>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:00:55 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, William F. Hammond wrote:
>> list etiquette can be difficult enough with some email programs,
An understatement:)
What usually happens is that people fall into what their programs make
"easy" for them. The result, these days, is the TOFU [*] that has
made me seriously consider quitting this list. For now, I killfile
with extreme prejudice any message extruded by Microsoft software.
[*] a term coined in the de.* hierarchy, standing for "Text Oben,
Fullquote Unten". Also known as "Jeopardy style".
> Cross-platform maximal control of this type for mail and Usenet news
> can be had with GNU Emacs, which contains a full lisp engine. For the
> windows platform see
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ .
Yes, but people need to learn the etiquette first (all remarks should
be in context: therefore you should snip and interleave.)
Arjun
Received on Tuesday, 26 June 2001 12:46:27 UTC