On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 7:14 PM, Lars Kruse lists@sumpfralle.de wrote:

Hi Ron,

Am Sat, 17 Jun 2017 13:35:59 -0400 schrieb ronwirring@Safe-mail.net:

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[..] I prefere if others leave the full text in their emails. I prefere to not delete text in my own replies. I cannot make that decision about my replies?

I could image, that Luke would like the participants of this mailinglist to use a style similar to the one defined in RFC1985 ("Netiquette", see section 2.1.1):

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

RFC 1855 not 1955. took a few minutes to find it. section 2.1.1 is a little dated, but 95% relevant. interestingly it contains no specific advice for mailing list interaction.

this example contains good advice on mailing list etiquette: http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php

please read - and follow and adhere to - section 9, ron. please also follow the link which leads here and read it:

http://howto-pages.org/posting_style/

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.

Since Luke maintains this mailinglist, I find it to be acceptable, that he can define the communication policy of this list, if he prefers so.

i do. i used to be quite lax about it but i feel it is becoming important.

Specifically in this case he is following a widely used style - even though we are all aware of the fact, that there are different communities or contexts out there using very different styles with regard to quoting.

for a "chatty" list such as a support self-help (e.g. alcoholics anonymous) group, top-posting would be the norm as most people would interact with either single-sentence (top-posted) replies of encouragement, or they would write massive walls-of-text to which it would be typically be perfectly fine to top-post.

this list is not such a list.

this is a technical list and it can get very busy and very complex very quickly. following interaction rules that have been developed over many decades for technical lists would be a good idea. http://howto-pages.org/posting_style/

l.