On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 06:12:32PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote:
That seems a more positive step than just plonking the barbarians at the
gates who refuse to recognise the price of receiving free help. (And
yes, even in this reply, we're doing your research and investigative
thinking for
=- Peter Davis wrote on Sun 2.Dec'12 at 8:54:58 -0500 -=
Ok, this, more than any of the previous discussion, clarifies the
situation for me. Within the global community of hundreds of
millions of email users, there's a smaller, cloistered
constituency of perhaps a few thousand who prefer
On 02.12.12 08:54, Peter Davis wrote:
In my view, no amount of argument or evidence is going to change the
minds of anyone in this smaller group. That's fine. Within the domain of
lists that discuss these classic tools, we should adhere to the
practices of that community.
Eureka! That is what
On 01.12.12 17:57, Peter Davis wrote:
the 72-column wrapping rule and the non-HTML rule can hardly be
considered netiquette except perhaps within this tiny circle.
Otherwise they are, at best, quaint relics of an earlier era.
There are other bastions of consideration for the reader, not yet
