On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 08:07:15AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 09:36 -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote:
>
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
>
> Pay special attention to section 3 "One-to-Many Communication"
> which covers how to use mailing lists, and which, coincidentally, the
> recently posted "list rules" are largely a copy of.
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but of course, that doesn't say anything about prefacing each line of a
quote reply with '> '
A 'net convention so widely subscribed to that even MS software defaults
to it - they probably felt it was such a given they didn't need to
mention it.
and I'm quite sure that there was more ad-hoc extensions.
Nope. If there were I'm sure you would have pointed them out.
Its a good short list (referring to the "List rules" post).
this topic has been beaten to death
And will continue to be. 'Tis the nature of the net. :)
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Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.