[Coco] List Etiquette

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Though untrimmed messages don’t bother me in the least the way I use email (in fact I find it convenient), 
and despite the fact that I find the whole ‘netiquette’ thing a bit silly and generally pedantic, *this* is really 
all you need to know…

"The list owner is the ruler of the list, and he expects list trimming."

So trim them out of respect for the list owner.

- Ed

 
> On Oct 19, 2018, at 1:41 PM, RETRO Innovations <go4retro at go4retro.com> wrote:
> 
> I can appreciate folks' desire to keep the long trail of previous responses, but email trimming is not a new thing, it's been part of email "hygiene" for 30 years.  While it may be a "pain", it's considered part of the effort folks exercise when they utilize electronic mail.
> 
> Specifically, such "netiquette" is formally defined in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comment (RFC) 1855
> 
> https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt (bottom of page 3)
> 
>    - Be brief without being overly terse.  When replying to a message,
>      include enough original material to be understood but no more. It
>      is extremely bad form to simply reply to a message by including
>      all the previous message: edit out all the irrelevant material.
> 
> Though the name may suggest otherwise, a formally published RFC is actually an in-force set of rules.  Our electronic mail system, as you are using to send your content, was formally specified in RFC821 (1982), obsoleted by RFC2821 (2001), which was in turn obsoleted by RFC 5321 (2008), and in turn was updated by RFC7504.
> 
> As you can see, RFC1855 is dated 1995, so it's 23 years old.  The Internet only works if people adhere to the RFCs.  Where machines must do the work, they enforce the RFC rules.  People, in turn, must do their part.
> 
> Regardless of how you feel about it personally, The list owner is the ruler of the list, and he expects list trimming.  Therefore, the continued discussion of its merits is inappropriate.  Find a manual or automated way to trim your content you post to the list, or unsubscribe and participate in other forums that allow long form content.
> 
> Jim