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Re: LDraw not to sell CD-ROM at Kidvention in July & Misc CD-ROM issues
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:17:06 GMT
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tim@zacktron.com (Tim Courtney) writes:
> Jonathan - [...] I just noticed a few of the one liner questions
> which have caused so many problems in the past. I'm encouraging
> you to stick with using a signature to sign your messages [...]
Tim, I have to disagree with you again. If there is something which
is more annoying than a person posting a one-line-reply, it is a
person posting a one-line-reply _and_ five automatically inserted
signature lines.
I have never heard any rules of netiquette which suggest that one
_should_ use a signature. In stead, standard netiquette typically say
that a signature should be as short as possible. A typical rule of
thumb is that a signature should be no longer than four lines.
Further, there should be a signature separator between the body of the
message (what you type in manually) and the signature. The signature
separator is "-- " (with newline on either side).
The other part of your message I agree with, though. It does
typically make it easier for people reading a thread if you quote just
so much text to make the context clear. It can sometimes be a bit
difficult to decide just how much quoted text to include. Personally,
I lean towards quoting as little as possible, as it is very easy with
some client software to retrieve the parent article of the one you are
reading.
Always quoting all the text of the parent article is a sure fire way
to annoy people in the long run, and should mostly be avoided.
Fredrik
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