Netiquette (was: Re: XMMS not in repository)

[Michael Leone]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Angela Kahealani wrote:
>> Bruce Marshall wrote:
>> > Netiquette calls for no more than 6 lines
>>
>> Netiquette calls for no more than 4 lines.
>>
>
> I guess you are right although I have seen 6 mentioned as the limit.
>
> In any event, 43 lines is the longest I have *ever* seen.

You need to get out more often. :-) I have seen longer, altho only
once. I've seen some with embeded pictures ....

Some mail programs will automatically ignore anything that starts with
the standard sig delimiter of "-- ",  when quoting, so that makes it
less of an issue.

Mind you, this little discussion has taken more bandwidth than that
guy's signature ....

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