Re: Posting Netiquette [ref: Threads "look definitely like" unreadable mess. Handbook project.]

2022-07-01 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote this message on Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 16:33 +1000: > Does anybody have an opinion on character set recommendations? I > think we should ask for UTF-8 if at all possible. I don't think there's any need for a recommendation. All [modern] MUA should tag the post

Re: Posting Netiquette [ref: Threads "look definitely like" unreadable mess. Handbook project.]

2022-06-26 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
Le 24 juin 2022 18:19:49 GMT+02:00, Chris a écrit : >On 2022-06-23 01:14, grarpamp wrote: the “> ;†and leave empty lines between your text and the original >> >>> Seems there is a charset mismatch. >>> MUA displaying nonsense >>> Oh the joy of UTF-8... ;-) >> >>

Re: Posting Netiquette [ref: Threads "look definitely like" unreadable mess. Handbook project.]

2022-06-24 Thread Chris
On 2022-06-23 01:14, grarpamp wrote: the “> ;†and leave empty lines between your text and the original Seems there is a charset mismatch. MUA displaying nonsense Oh the joy of UTF-8... ;-) https://unicode-table.com/en/sets/quotation-marks/ The pages ...

Re: Posting Netiquette [ref: Threads "look definitely like" unreadable mess. Handbook project.]

2022-06-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 23 June 2022 at 6:03:20 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:01:18 +1000, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> [...] I personally find that prepending >> ">" to the original message works best. Leaving white space after >> the "> " and leave empty lines between your text

Re: Posting Netiquette [ref: Threads "look definitely like" unreadable mess. Handbook project.]

2022-06-23 Thread grarpamp
>> the “> ;†and leave empty lines between your text and the original > Seems there is a charset mismatch. > MUA displaying nonsense > Oh the joy of UTF-8... ;-) https://unicode-table.com/en/sets/quotation-marks/ The pages ...

Re: Posting Netiquette [ref: Threads "look definitely like" unreadable mess. Handbook project.]

2022-06-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 22 June 2022 at 15:41:39 -0400, grarpamp wrote: > Around 6/2x/22, Many rammed their horribly formed > msgs upon others to parse: > ... > FreeBSD needs to add an entire section on the > email post formatting netiquette to the Handbook, > and link it on the List Subscription pages,

Posting Netiquette [ref: Threads "look definitely like" unreadable mess. Handbook project.]

2022-06-22 Thread grarpamp
Around 6/2x/22, Many rammed their horribly formed msgs upon others to parse: > [Subject: MCE: Does this look possibly like a slot issue?] > [snip] Attention all list users... Stop top-posting and bulk-quoting. Just stop. Go search and learn about and use the email post formatting netiquette.