Hello,
Thanks to all of you who provided feedback on this thread and
off-list. I'll attempt to summarize the comments on this thread.
Wes George asked whether there was an IETF standard format for
handling inline quote replies and whether it has been implemented
[1]. He mentioned that rehashing an old draft about nettiquete 101
is less helpful. He also commented about the common problem of
mangled subject lines that make it very difficult to sort by
thread. There was also an off-list comment about this. Scott
Brim's comment [2] is an interesting view about standardization.
Dave Cridland mentioned RFC 3676 [3]. He pointed out that it
primarily useful in simple replies rather than quoting. One of the
problem he encounters is a lack of in-reply-to or references fields
that I can use for in-thread navigation. Alessandro Vesely commented
about disclaimers in messages [4].
I avoided a discussion of standards or to dictate etiquette in
draft-moonesamy-mail-list-protocol. Section 2 list points which may
see obvious to a lot of people on this mailing list. The text at
http://www.ietf.org/newcomers.html doesn't provide a lot of
information about facilitating discussions.
I would like to ask you to pick the three points from Section 2 (
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-moonesamy-mail-list-protocol-00 )
which you consider as helpful to facilitate mailing list discussion
and send them to me off-list. I'll post a summary to this mailing
list after a week.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
1. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg76271.html
2. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg76275.html
3. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg76295.html
4. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg76296.html