[Babase] List netiquette

Susan Alberts babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:02:17 -0500


Thanks Karl, sorry to be slow responding on this.

What I've understood so far about rules is:

1. do NOT include all of the original message when you are replying 
to something, edit out the bits you are not replying to, and
2. nest your replies within the text that you are replying to.
3. Make sure your email program is set to send plain text.

I didn't know any of this and always thought that I was supposed to 
include the whole original message, for some reason.

I agree that this is important in that we do intend to use this 
mailing list as an archive of decisions etc, and i can see that we 
might end up making it very hard to search.

I would like to request that, during our may 6 meeting, Karl give us 
a brief overview of the practices and rationale for how to reply to 
emails (unless the rules I've listed above say everything already).

Susan
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