Thank you, Bert.

You've said in a few paragraphs what took me a whole sentence.

<VBG>

Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bert Freudenberg" <bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 4:10 AM
Subject: List etiquette (was: Re: Three Threads Of Squeak)


> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Gary Fisher wrote:
>
> > The "problem" you're seeing is caused not by malicious behavior but by
the
> > way many email programs handle replies in html
>
> Those problems can easily be overcome by a little common sense:
>
> * Don't send HTML mails to the list.
> * Don't include everything in a reply, just so much to retain the context.
>
> If you were never given a proper introduction how to politely use this
> medium, it would be a great idea to study the "Mailing List Etiquette",
> especially the section about formatting and quoting (attached below).
>
> -- Bert
>
> http://www.gweep.ca/~edmonds/usenet/ml-etiquette.html
>
> Are there any important formatting considerations?
>
> Visual formatting is very important in a textual medium like email.  If
> your postings are poorly formatted, they will be hard to read, and