Lpc2000

jayasooriah in <e0nanf+2adp@...>:

>  Bear in mind netiquette came about from the USENET days when postings
>  were through vanilla SMTP clients that deal only with plain text.

in the old days USENET was transported over UUCP, which changed to NNTP
over TCP/IP nowadays.  SMTP has nothing to do with it. the netiquette
has more to do with saving bandwidth: it's best to place a concise
statement on one screenful; this goes for every public forum whatever
protocol is used.

>  Many clients today have fancy "web view" capability and handle
>  proprietary formatted contents that make cutting original text
>  somewhat cumbersome.

ah, there's the problem! i'm not a fan of GUIs all that much, and you're
right: for the purpose of cleaning up, one has to mark superfluous lines
and hit DELETE or even use the menu.

>  I often receive responses where the respondent breaks original text
>  into parts, and responds to each part by way of annotation style
>  comments (as I like it to be) except ... respondent's email client
>  does not distinguish original text from the annotation!

yeah, i've seen this, too. doesn't even the window$ "standard"
mailreader have an option to prefix lines with the customary "> " ?

  clemens