I just wanted to catch up with my backlog (quite big) of unread posts
in this mailing list, but had to realize that browsing through the
discussions is a nightmare these days: most posts seem to consist of
one or two lines of contribution, and 100+ lines of all previous posts,
fully quoted, with dozens of "Unsubscribe" and "Sent from my ...phone"
footers and overly verbose email signatures, with logos and silly
legal disclaimers...
most posts seem to consist of one or two lines of contribution, and
100+ lines of all previous posts,
Very true. I find this very, very, annoying also.
"Unsubscribe" and "Sent from my ...phone" footers
The unsubscribe footers have recently been introduced to make people not
always write "unsubscribe" messages to the main ML. The phone footers
are annoying.
Maybe I'm getting too old for this list...
No, it is that people are not made aware of the list etiquette. If
nobody critises people who don’t follow the rules, then nobody will
follow the rules.
On 8 February 2016 at 21:04, Mike iLL Kilmer <mike@mzoo.org> wrote:
On Feb 8, 2016, at 12:34 PM, stomar <sto.mar@web.de> wrote:
>
> use plain text
> emails, trim quotations to only the relevant part, and use inline
> quoting style
> (Posting style - Wikipedia).
On 8 February 2016 at 21:04, Mike iLL Kilmer <mike@mzoo.org> wrote:
On Feb 8, 2016, at 12:34 PM, stomar <sto.mar@web.de> wrote:
>
> use plain text
> emails, trim quotations to only the relevant part, and use inline
> quoting style
> (Posting style - Wikipedia).
We should send an unsubscribe mail each month (week) with a specific
subject, and drop the signature in every mail.
Please, don't do that! Two lines of pure text do no harm at all, and
they are just the perfect solution to the problem of the trickle of
'please unsubscribe me' messages. Those people want an immediate
solution to their need, and a weekly/monthly message is far from
immediate.
Carlo
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Subject: Re: Please stop top posting (TOFU)
Date: mer 10 feb 16 08:24:32 +0100
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* Se la Strada e la sua Virtu' non fossero state messe da parte,
* K * Carlo E. Prelz - fluido@fluido.as che bisogno ci sarebbe
* di parlare tanto di amore e di rettitudine? (Chuang-Tzu)
I agree with plain text, bottom-posting, and snipping quotes. However, this
is an issue that will not die any time soon, and we're wasting too many
electrons on it.
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On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Quintus <quintus@quintilianus.eu> wrote:
Carlos Dagorret <carlos.dagorret@gmail.com> writes:
> I read and reply via gmail and can be done safely
Yes, and you managed to quote the entire message below your post, which
is exactly what you shouldn’t do.
- its not annoying