From nobody Sat Apr 09 08:33:57 2022 X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C76AB1A80E32; Sat, 9 Apr 2022 08:34:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@time-domain.co.uk) Received: from mail0.time-domain.net (mail0.time-domain.net [62.3.122.138]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4Kb7gw5wCBz4jpD; Sat, 9 Apr 2022 08:34:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@time-domain.co.uk) Received: from mail0.time-domain.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail0.time-domain.net (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 2398XvjJ033282; Sat, 9 Apr 2022 09:33:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from andy@time-domain.co.uk) Received: from localhost (andy-tds@localhost) by mail0.time-domain.net (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 2398XvGX033279; Sat, 9 Apr 2022 09:33:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from andy@time-domain.co.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mail0.time-domain.net: andy-tds owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2022 09:33:57 +0100 (BST) From: andy thomas X-X-Sender: andy-tds@mail0.time-domain.net To: grarpamp cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: List Mail Formatting Netiquette [ie: 870 QVO] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (BSF 395 2020-01-19) List-Id: Filesystems List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-fs List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4Kb7gw5wCBz4jpD X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of andy@time-domain.co.uk designates 62.3.122.138 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=andy@time-domain.co.uk X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.32 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; FREEFALL_USER(0.00)[andy]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:62.3.122.136/29]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.89)[-0.890]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; HAS_XAW(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[time-domain.co.uk]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.81)[0.813]; RCPT_COUNT_FIVE(0.00)[5]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.95)[-0.946]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-hackers,freebsd-fs,freebsd-performance,freebsd-questions]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[gmail.com]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:13037, ipnet:62.3.64.0/18, country:GB]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On Thu, 7 Apr 2022, grarpamp wrote: > On 4/7/22, egoitz@ramattack.net wrote: >> I answer below in bold blue for instance... >> for better seeing my answers.... > > While you may think that helps people, in reality it does > not, and it actually makes peoples mails much worse for the > proper text based email using world, and sits among other > random formats that randoms try to stuff down other peoples > mailboxes, and they might not even show up in search engines, > archives, onscreen, phones, etc. Read up on classic proper > email formatting netiquette where, for very good reasons, > it tells everyone to... turn off HTML mail, and to quit top > posting and quit bulk quoting, and to trim what you're > replying to down to only the relevant minimum context while > writing your replies underneath that, and to delete addressees > already present within list addresses, and to quit SHOUTING > ALL CAPS, and to wrap non-code lines at around 68 chars, > and to not break header threading (in-reply-to and references) > when replying. This reminder actually for all lists and senders. Hear, hear! Well said: I mainly work for a largely Windows-centric organisation who has outsourced its email to the Microsoft Office 365 cloud-based services. I'm rather fed up with getting emails from colleagues and having query "what's underlined in blue?", "where's this text you've highlighted in red?", etc since I use Alpine as my MUA. Andy ---------------------------- Andy Thomas, Time Domain Systems Tel: +44 (0)7866 556626 http://www.time-domain.co.uk