[H-GEN] Netiquette

[Anthony Towns]

On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 03:35:17PM +1000, cla wrote:
> i finally bothered to mimencode -u an entry in an email digest i
> receive, and was amazed at how much mime and html packaging was tacked
> on to no perceptible advantage.
>
> do the commerical/ms mailers not have a simple option to recognise a
> message size/content below which they shouldn't abuse a nice simple
> ascii communication channel?

Investigate and find out.

It's usually a matter of something being set as default, and no one
bothering to change it. It's often also a matter of no one realising
why you might want to set the "Allow me to use colour and pictures"
checkbox to "off".
 
> also, can anyone recommend an easy to follow analysis of the
> 'fairness' of varying approaches to network congestion?

Wander into McGills and flip through some of the networking textbooks
there? If you find something useful, buy it and read it at your leisure?

This question seems to me to be a little too vague to have a useful
answer.

> thanks,
> -

.sigs are usually separated by a single line containing "-- ". This
allows mail readers to pick up on the fact that it's just a .signature
and not include it in replies and such.

It's also usual to keep your .signature to around four lines. If you've
got something longer to say, put it on your homepage.

Oh, and note the disclaimer in my .sig. I'm not speaking as secretary
or anything when I say any of this. If you think you know better, and
can justify it, you're welcome to counter anything I've said.

Cheers,
aj

-- 
Anthony Towns <aj at humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/>
I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred.

``There are 24 primitive weird numbers less than a million...''
          -- _Unsolved Problems in Number Theory_, Richard K. Guy

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