Threadtiquette

Jeff Wilson · 07 Jan 2011, 19:57 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:57:12 -0600
Subject: (urth) Threadtiquette
In-Reply-To: <4D26904E.3090307 at verizon.net>
References: <476532.56723.qm at web84102.mail.mud.yahoo.com>	<eb1e17824129d1bb0db2461b6ea9ff24.squirrel at webmail.prismnet.com>	<4D26691E.7090209 at verizon.net>	<4D2682D0.1010605 at io.com>
	<4D26904E.3090307 at verizon.net>
Message-ID: <4D277018.5000604 at io.com>

On 1/6/2011 10:02 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> You might be right if there were any meaningful distinction there. At
> any rate, I am certainly not going to change settings for a single set
> of recipients.

Why bother to justify your decision to flout the established standards 
of e-mail behavior to me? I'm not like Serial Mom, hunting down people 
who wear white after Labor Day. Sin boldly!

However, people who care about this sort of thing may be consoled by the 
thought that our work down at the Laboratory may one day lead to e-mail 
clients that reform the calumnies of scruffy correspndence, providing 
for them an integral Mr Million to whisk away the HTML to the lintel 
with the discarded reed pipes, and set top posting to right before 
presenting it to their byteworn eyes.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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