Re: [MiNT] administativia

[Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no]

> -----Opprinnelig melding-----
> Fra:	Martin-Eric Racine [SMTP:q-funk@pp.fishpool.com]
> Sendt:	28. april 1999 10:48
> Til:	MiNT List
> Kopi:	Teemu Hukkanen
> Emne:	[MiNT] administativia
> 
> Recently, a _lot_ of messages on this list present inapropriately
> formatted texts.  Check your mailers for the following options:
> 
	---- I guess I'm one of the "violators"... ----

> 1) Replies in the Subject line
> 
>    Ensure your mailer uses "Re:" to mark replies, not SV, VA, AV,
>    or other localised abbreviated translations of "reply".
> 
	---- Not possible in my case. Don't even ask, it's just not possible
to configure MS Outlook to do something like this. ----

> 2) Character-set
> 
>    Either use "us-ascii" or some sort of ISO-8859 character-sets.
>    Windows code-page and other X-romulan oddities are inapropriate 
>    for emailing and newsposting purposes.
> 
	---- Again, not possible with MS Outlook. ----

> 3) V-cards
> 
>    Please disable V-cards or any sort of appended documents and
>    refrain from using HTML messages.  Plain text is mandatory.
> 
	---- Try tell MS Outlook this...  Sorry, but again, this is
something Outlook decides for itself. Vcards and HTML can be disabled, but
quite often it decides to attach something that looks like line-noise. I
have no idea what it is and how to get rid of it. ----

> 5) Don't reply to _everyone_
> 
>    If your reply concerns only to one of the original recipients,
>    don't keep the addresses of everyone initially contacted in the
>    first messages of a thread; reduce "To" and "Cc" headers lenght
>    where appropriate.
> 
	---- Definitely.... Look at the headers of your own postings M-E,
all of your replies is either sent to the originator and Cc'ed to the list
or vice versa. Please everybody, just send the replies to the list and ditch
all Cc's. After all, if you post to the list, you read it as well. Deleting
duplicates is OK at work, but annoying for modem-users.

	As for the other stuff.... Well, I'd love to have a decent emailer
at work, but I don't, so the only alternative is to stop posting. ----

	Jo Even Skarstein