On 5/15/19 3:44 PM, Michael Richardson wrote:
I'm starting to wonder if we need an email-101 tutorial for newcomers.
Maybe. There are specific practices and etiquette for effective use of email that I suspect originated in ARPAnet days, and some of which may have been influenced by Usenet, but are not always known to more recent participants.
Examples are: quoting the subject message in a reply and putting responses inline rather than at top or bottom, judicious trimming of quoted portions of a subject message in replies, changing the subject line when appropriate, start replying privately when the discussion gets heated (with a notation to that effect in the message body), the pros and cons of cross-posting to multiple lists, "reply all" vs. "reply to list", and more recently, the "+1" convention. It might be a useful exercise to try to document some of these things.
Keith
