Email etiquette (was Re: [Centos] tripwire / Extras pkgs)

[xxagGxOGLGlkHPZkvyxc at patsoffice.com (Patrick Lawrence - CentOS Lists)]

> Ahh well... I'll keep the masses happy.

While we're on the subject of altering email habits, perhaps people can
also trim messages to only quote the relevant content from message that
is being responded to.  For example, I *KNOW* this is a CentOS mailing
list, I don't need to see the mailman footer quoted in the response.
Not to mention the fact that often the response is a one-liner but it
quotes a 50 line message.

> A FAQ might be prudent... as I see I'm not the only one.  ;)

You mean like this one found via Google (email etiquette faq):

http://www.gweep.ca/~edmonds/usenet/ml-etiquette.html

See "When replying, should I quote the previous message?" in
particular. :-)

I find as a general rule of thumb, that if I don't care enough about
formatting the message, it's probably not worth sending to the whole
list.

Pat
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