Russell Coker wrote:
On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 12:30:15 achalmers@westnet.com.au wrote:
You are not spending cycles on education here, this is the type of (ultimately bullying) behaviour that has ruined our culture.
The purpose of a list is for communication.
When points are discussed clear communication requires referencing previous messages. If everyone quotes messages with "> " then you can have several levels of quoted text and it will still be readable.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1849.txt §4.3.2 This SHOULD be done by prefacing each quoted line (even if it is empty) with the character ">". This will result in multiple levels of ">" when quoted context itself contains quoted context. FWIW, I found the post Russell complained about so unreadable that I skipped it entirely. I approve of explaining established conventions; it's entirely appropriate.