Re: Security and protocol: was( HTML Mail for PHYS-L: Pros/Cons)

["Daniel L. MacIsaac" <Dan.MacIsaac@NAU.EDU>]

> Question:
> Is there a preferred protocol for quoting others when responding to a
> post?  Some have expressed a desire to have the entire original post and
> reply in one message, others desire just the response and still others
> extract part of the message and reply to that part.
Prune heavily because some people are reading the list in digest mode and get
all postings together as a once-a-day event. This means completed quotes
messages need to be paged through and are very repetitive.  Two or three
replies means two or three replications, which can be quite annoying.

See the list homepage
http://purcell.phy.nau.edu/PHYS-L/
for a discussion of listserv etiquette.

Dan M

Dan MacIsaac, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northern AZ Univ
danmac@nau.edu          http://purcell.phy.nau.edu         PHYS-L list owner