I agree. So often established conventions are ignored and let go, then it becomes a mess and people say "let it go". All of a sudden people are posting with no grammar whatsoever and when they're corrected, people say "let it go". To quote an earlier poster, "for the love of f**k", please have some rules, at least regarding posting on the 'net. On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
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