Lex Ein wrote:
But (from "Netiquette") - "Follow any and all guidelines that the listowner has posted; the listowner establishes the local "netiquette" standards for her/his list." Well, there aren't any, so we could argue this until doomsday.
actually the listowner can set up a local netiquette and he as done so right now... new subscribers will get a reference link to a site explaining how quotes should be done. anyone else gets the link at http://iem.at/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pd-list
probably there will be a real "local netiquette"-site in the future.
Counterstrike: all. Letting the reader understand the context is very important for easy reading. Therefore there should always be /some few/ lines reminding the reader about what kind of discussion he is into.
actually there should always be at least one line for "reminding the reader": the subject
as for "some few" lines, this does not say anything about where they should be (top or bottom), but as we are reading top-down and we need to know the context before we understand an answer, this is a strong argument for top quotes. and bottom quotes tend to become TOFU.
- Bloated .sig signatures desensitize people to any and all
"below the line" text.
signatures tend to bloat because several "people" (e.g.: software) add there signature to the same posting. while there might be "interesting" (for *me*) information in the signature (e.g: how to unsubscribe from a mailing-list) there is often "uninteresting" (for *me*) information (e.g: that someone is using hotmail (i can get the same information reading his email-address))
of course all of the unsubscribe information is also present in the header of the mail (but i don't think we can get people to examine the header of an email to turn off postings...)
- 1 topic per posting,
certainly
- The signature should have fewer lines, bolder, full width, and
multi-lingual.
i have stripped the signature down a bit
however, i don't like to bloat the signature with multilingual upper-case messages. the pd-list is an english only mailing-list. it should be ok to stay in english.
mfg.a.sdr IOhannes