[clue-tech] Please trim your posts - netiquette again

[Collins Richey]

On 4/23/05, Chris Tubutis <ctubutis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 23 Apr, David Anselmi wrote:
> > Though he'd get less argument if some sort of standards were posted on
> > the web site.
> 
> This might be true but I'm not so sure such text belongs on the CLUE
> site as this netiquette stuff applies to both e-mail and USENET news
> (where I learned it all from) and Internet communications as a whole.
> 
> Some of my favorite verbiage on the topic was written several years ago
> by Greg Lehey of FreeBSD fame, I send the link to friends who use IMHO
> misconfigured MS Outlook mail clients.
> 
> Greg's spiel:
> http://www.lemis.com/email.html
> 
> On his page somewhere is a link to RFC 1855 which specifically addresses
> Netiquette, I seem to remember this RFC coming about somewhere around
> the time the 'net went commercial (mid-90s).
> 

OK, here's my last official action as "netiquette witch."

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html

Enjoy,

-- 
 Collins
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