List Rules

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 01:23:25PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> 1 - This is Red Hat server and they make the rules. They have
> deliberately chosen to keep the rules to a minimum. They are going to
> let pretty much everything slide that isn't entirely disrupted to the
> commerce of the list.

Err, sure. Therefore it's nice for the community to have some basic
standards of our own.

> Convention would have a large amount of email programs putting in a "> "
> at the beginning of each line copied from the original into a reply.
> This is almost always configurable on the mail client (I don't know of
> one that doesn't offer configuration options). Some clients (mutt comes
> to mind) will use "\_ " for this purpose by default - who cares? This

Um, mutt uses "> " by default. I've never heard of "\_ " being anything's
default.


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