On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 1:39 PM John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It appears that Andrew Newton <andy@xxxxxx> said: > >That said, we could run an experiment to see if our culture can be shaped by > >writing down a set of conventions for email we can ask participants to use. > > Seems to me that we have found that a lot of us have already decided what the > right conventions are, in many mutually exclusive ways. How are we to boil the ocean if we can agree on how to format an email? > > I also get the impression that a lot of us have never run a mail > system. A recent note suggested sending an auto-nag message to people > who sent mail that was wrongly formatted in some way. If we did that, > people getting the autonag will mark it as junk, because that's what > it is, and we would soon start finding all of the IETF's mail in spam > folders in large mail systems. Then we would have a round of flamage > saying how stupid users at Gmail and/or Gmail itself are. So let's > not. That's a good point, though I suspect IETF mail going into spam folders does have indirect benefits. :) Maybe we write down the conventions and then kindly ask a set of people to voluntarily follow them if possible. -andy
