Gregory Williamson wrote:
* Get a life -- how people post is _trivial_. *content* over *form* !
Beating dead horses is of no interest other than the inherent joy in the
thing. Deal with the fact that an open mail ist will have users from
*all* backgrounds and origins and it you can't make everything a fight.
Pick the most important battles. Top-posting is not the worst sin. (not
reading the manuals is the by the worst transgression, IMHO).
Posting in HTML is kind of a no-no.
And for those who really care, email etiquette in painful detail here
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855>. Hijacking seems to be more of a
Bozo No-No than top posting. Or maybe that's just me.
Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments,
is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain
confidential and privileged information and must be protected in
accordance with those provisions. Any unauthorized review, use,
disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended
recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all
copies of the original message.
(My corporate masters made me say this.)
Are they aware that your "confidential" messages are on a public board?
Are they aware that routinely and indiscriminately marking all communications
as "confidential" when some go to a public venue, can reduce or even eliminate
the protection of confidentiality from such marked communications in certain
jurisidictions? IANAL, but as I understand it from /The Hacker Crackdown/ by
Bruce Sterling, it figured into the defense of a BBS operator accused of
disseminating "confidential" AT&T information in the U.S. ca. 1990.
--
Lew
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