List Rules

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 09:36 -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 01:23:25PM -0700, Craig White wrote:

> > 2 - You are confusing convention with etiquette and then rfc standards -
> > they are clearly not the same thing at all.
> 
> False - See RFC 1855  which covers Netiquette Guidelines
> 
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
> 
> Pay special attention to section 3 "One-to-Many Communication"
> which covers how to use mailing lists, and which, coincidentally, the 
> recently posted "list rules" are largely a copy of.
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but of course, that doesn't say anything about prefacing each line of a
quote reply with '> ' and I'm quite sure that there was more ad-hoc
extensions.

this topic has been beaten to death

Craig