List etiquette

[Paul King]

On 8 Mar 2006 at 1:43, BusterThelen-YDxpq3io04c at public.gmane.org spaketh these wourdes:

> I feel I have something to contribute to this thread, though AOL  mail issued
> under MS Windows is all I know how to use so far.  Does  etiquette require me to
> hold my tongue until I become a geek?
> 

That is really the whole point, isn't it? I personally haven't yet found the time 
to know how to do the things I have listed in the UNIX mailers fabled to "do all 
of the above". With Pegasus, that evolution of knowledge is the accomplishment of 
over 10 years of continual use and some occasional fiddling. I have been on this 
mailing list for 11 years, and this is the first time I have had anyone complain 
about Pegasus botching up anything other users do. These complaints are usally 
reserved for Outlook and web mail users, and they usually regard the issue of 
exceeding 80 columns and using non-standard attachment methods (which BTW, is 
ironic to hear, since the at least one of the RFCs regarding MIME was co-authored 
by people at Microsoft). Actually, simply sending *any* attachments will get on 
most people's cases in this list.

Frankly, my attitude is that if I am plonked by users of this list for the 
heinous crime of not bottom-posting (or was it "not top-posting"?) or of getting 
the Message-ID line in my headers wrong, or the References line, or for my 
spelling of the word "heinous", I certainly do not mean to inconvenience their 
lives with my "socially unacceptable" header lines so they are free to plonk 
away. I suppose the fact that Pegasus places an "@localhost" in my Message-ID 
will be the closest I will ever get to becoming a computer criminal. 
:-)

As for the References line, I never notice these things, because I never view my 
email in a threaded way (Pegasus looks at your subject line when threading, but 
alphabetizes the threads so you lose information on the dates, which is why I 
never use that view). I sort everything by date/time, and use a non-threaded 
view. I'm used to it, so I don't complain.

Paul King

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