Emile van Bergen wrote: > However, I fail to understand why you want people to refrain from > bringing the netiquette under the attention of the people they are > receiving email from.
Never said they should refrain. I do think that it's a waste of time though. > IOW, if everybody just tries to accomodate some reasonable wishes as > stated by the other party as far as is possible without effort (and > including a text/plain part is no effort, not forwarding virus hoaxes is > no effort, but proving to a robot that you are not *is*), there is no > need to drop any netiquette rules. You don't need to drop any rules that you are happy with and comply with yourself. Just don't expect anyone else to do so. > In short, I still fail to see your point. I don't like school boy rules and I thought I'd tell everyone. The netiquette stuff (and others) are a pretty exclusive policy as there are such a myriad of rules that can be broken that its use is more to make the other party look stupid compared to the technical knowledge of their accuser. Matt.
