> -----Original Message----- > From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 4:09 PM
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:54:28PM -0500, Stone, Timothy wrote: > > It goes without saying that there are well-defined traditions in > > posting to newsgroups and mailing lists. Reading the many > > FAQs on the web one will find the common rules: > > You forgot the first one in your post: WRAP at 72 characters. Or even shorter, if many layers of reply are expected, which leads to a corollary: If wrapping becomes messes up because of quoting, REFORMAT to restore proper authentication (as I had to do in this message for the lines from Tim Stone). > > - Do not top-post > > > > - DO NOT SHOUT > > Add: > - No HTML Psuedo-HTML is acceptable in technically literate circles</addition> > - Short signature block (keep the quotes and such crap out) Remove previous signature blocks from quotes > > But what about some of these that seem to go undocumented: > > > > /Italics/ > > > > _Underline_ > > > > *Bold|Emphasis* > You physically can't use true italics, underline, or bold in a plain > text e-mail. If you want to use funny symbols around them > like you did, use them sparingly and you won't annoy too many > people. The more you try and use fancy formatting, the worse it gets. > What we're looking for is content, not how pretty your e-mail looks. > If it's not absolutely relevant to the question you're asking, leave > it out. Only exception: if it makes it substantially easier to follow the point (very rare, refer to previous paragraph). This is <bold>MANDATORY</bold> :) > > Ok, the normal ones. What about foreign language characters? Umlats, > > accents and tildes. Any comments these? What have any of the readers > > here seen? > Plain text doesn't have special characters. If you want to > emulate them because your name or city or whatever has them, go ahead. > They should be in the SHORT signature block anyway. The primary language > of this list is English. When emphasizing emotional or possibly emotional points, remember the person at the other end cannot read your body language, or necessarily infer the MOOD that you are attempting to convey. Be aware of this, and if necessary, use a generally accepted emoticon to convey this information, rather than leave it out and have an otherwise innocuous message start a flame war because it was misinterpreted. However, do not sprinkle emoticons in your message liberally; just enough to show the gist. For example (all examples bogus and impossible): Microsoft just released Win95 DLLs as opensource, allowing WineX to use them :) SCO wins court case on UNIX patents versus IBM, Linux doomed >8O -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
