On Monday 23 June 2003 22:34, Chris I wrote: > On 2003.06.23 22:09, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > > General email guidelines: > > > > -- Forward emails as attachment and not as inline text. > > Why as an attatchment? I usually either bounce mail if it needs to be > redirected, or forward inline for ease of reading. Some mail clients > make it a pain to view attatchments, and some mailclients might not tag > them as text/plain.
Inlining is just horrid. I hate to have to scroll down farther than I must. Also, with all the headers, it is just cleaner to view it as an attachment. > Just another clarification request? Back in the day it was used to > separate one's signature from the message. This made it easy for > scripts to parse incoming email (such as mailman or something), but why > is this really neccessary on a regular basis? I don't know if you are a /. reader, but I am. I can not possibly sift through the difference between some users' messages and their signatures. Maybe it is due to the rampant incoherence on /. that I can not tell what is a signature and what is a "writing." However, you do add some sort of closing to a written letter (email or snail-mail) before your name, do you not? > Also, on other mailing lists I'm on, links are often put in numbered > footnotes. In things like the GWN, footnotes are after each paragraph > rather than the end of the mail. Some people place footnotes after each > paragraph un-numbered. Is this writer's preference? No, this is a stylistic error. Believe it or not, email (at least to this ML) is written in English. While English may not govern where footnotes are to go, bibliographical style sheets do. Seeing as how the GWN merely cites the web address and disregards the author, access date, publish organization, et al, I doubt they are following a standardized style sheet. So yes, it is partially the writer's "choice" in that they can choose what style sheet to follow or whether to disregard style sheets entirely. Although, generally writers of large or widely read publications should follow a standardized style sheet -- It's just "writer's common courtesy". Regards -- Zack Gilburd http://tehunlose.com
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