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Re: [Pan-users] GNKSA-ish feature suggestion -- RFC 1855 compliant warni
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Fred Fraley |
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Re: [Pan-users] GNKSA-ish feature suggestion -- RFC 1855 compliant warning on long posts |
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Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:34:47 -0400 |
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> It's [] good practice to include the word "Long" in the subject
> header so the recipient knows the message will take time to read
> and respond to. Over 100 lines is considered "long".
>
I wonder if this is one of those "traditional" things that no longer
really applies? History:
Older, non-internet news relays did not always show line counts, if
present they often had no relationship to the message length, and
connection time was valuable (remember when upgrading to a
"high-speed" modem meant 2400 baud and sysop privileges meant
doubling your limit from 30' to 60'/day on a BBS?). Etiquette also
meant using a packet reader like BlueWave to handle "long" messages
offline.
Whilst reminiscing, most packet readers also flagged if you were
about to post anything more than 25-50% quoted material. And, at
least in my area, it was VERY bad form to bottom post.
I still like top posted messages better - I can quickly find the
start of the new material and refer to the old material - of course
50 lines at the most- if I need to. Now it seems reversed, with
several screens of quoted repost and (I hope) one screen or less of
new material. If there's more that that I have to go searching for
where it starts.
Hmmm...Maybe everyone could put a <START HERE!!> flag on the new
material, and we could automatically scan there to find the beginning
:->
- [Pan-users] GNKSA-ish feature suggestion -- RFC 1855 compliant warning on long posts, Duncan, 2003/08/02
- Re: [Pan-users] GNKSA-ish feature suggestion -- RFC 1855 compliant warning on long posts,
Fred Fraley <=
- [Pan-users] Re: GNKSA-ish feature suggestion -- RFC 1855 compliant warning on long posts, Lenroc, 2003/08/05
- Re: [Pan-users] GNKSA-ish feature suggestion -- RFC 1855 compliant warning on long posts, J.B. Moreno, 2003/08/10
- Re: [Pan-users] GNKSA-ish feature suggestion -- RFC 1855 compliant warning on long posts, Rinaldi J. Montessi, 2003/08/10
- Re: [Pan-users] GNKSA-ish feature suggestion -- RFC 1855 compliant warning on long posts, J.B. Moreno, 2003/08/10
- [Pan-users] Re: GNKSA-ish feature suggestion -- RFC 1855 compliant warning on long posts, Lenroc, 2003/08/11
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: GNKSA-ish feature suggestion -- RFC 1855 compliant warning on long posts, Duncan, 2003/08/11
- [Pan-users] Re: Re: GNKSA-ish feature suggestion -- RFC 1855 compliant warning on long posts, Lenroc, 2003/08/11