OT Re: Locale settings not honoured - file bug report?

[JoeHill]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:42:29 +1100
Terry got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:

> Joe Klemmer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 11:14 -0500, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> It's been my experience where technical problems are being discussed
> >> it's beneficial to leave all text quoted and bottom posted so a
> >> complete history of the discussion is available without having to
> >> search back through MID's in the header.

That could get a little crazy, no? Like Joe (the other one...er, I guess *I'm*
the 'other one'...anyway) said, use some judgement.

> >> Otherwise group policy should prevail. 
> >>     
> >
> >    If you read by threads then the full back-quoting makes it more
> > difficult because you have to keep paging down many, many times bast
> > text you've already read in context to get to the responses.

Bingo.

> >    But there's no consensus on the One True Way<tm> of replying to
> > mailing lists.
> 
> The complaint I got on the other list arose, I believe, because the 
> person concerned found he had to go back and re-read previous messages 
> to remind himself of the course of the discussion.

Er, rather than read through 1500 lines of garbled, quoted text? No thanks.
 
> He felt that was discourteous of me and quoted some RFC, possibly RFC 
> 1855.  Whether it was revenge or not, he did not explain "RFC" (of which 
> I had never heard) or provide any link.
> 
> For other fortunate souls who have never encountered RFC 1855, it's here:
> 
> http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html

Apparently this 'expert' in RFC's didn't even *read* this one.

"Be brief without being overly terse. When replying to a message, include
*enough original material to be understood but no more. It is extremely bad
form to simply reply to a message by including all the previous message*: edit
out all the irrelevant material."

LOL! What a maroon...

Anyway, the one thing I have recently been aprised of, and it makes sense, is
that no matter how much snipping you might do, try (again, within reasonable
limits) to include the 'attribute' lines, so that everyone knows *who* is being
quoted :-)

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