Re: A mailing list protocol

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Hello,

Thanks to all of you who provided feedback on this thread and off-list. I'll attempt to summarize the comments on this thread.

Wes George asked whether there was an IETF standard format for handling inline quote replies and whether it has been implemented [1]. He mentioned that rehashing an old draft about nettiquete 101 is less helpful. He also commented about the common problem of mangled subject lines that make it very difficult to sort by thread. There was also an off-list comment about this. Scott Brim's comment [2] is an interesting view about standardization.

Dave Cridland mentioned RFC 3676 [3]. He pointed out that it primarily useful in simple replies rather than quoting. One of the problem he encounters is a lack of in-reply-to or references fields that I can use for in-thread navigation. Alessandro Vesely commented about disclaimers in messages [4].

I avoided a discussion of standards or to dictate etiquette in draft-moonesamy-mail-list-protocol. Section 2 list points which may see obvious to a lot of people on this mailing list. The text at http://www.ietf.org/newcomers.html doesn't provide a lot of information about facilitating discussions.

I would like to ask you to pick the three points from Section 2 ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-moonesamy-mail-list-protocol-00 ) which you consider as helpful to facilitate mailing list discussion and send them to me off-list. I'll post a summary to this mailing list after a week.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

1. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg76271.html
2. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg76275.html
3. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg76295.html
4. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg76296.html



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