GAS-L: ..swinging the 9-tailed on message quote style

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

Hi, fellow listers,

..swinging the 9-tailed on the dead horse known as 
message quote style: Do we want to have a guide on it?

..was message quote style ever discussed when the lists started
or did you just take usenet style messages for granted?

..I raise this issue here on the gasification list, where malformed 
quoting with no "> "-hints on who wrote what, have people lose 
interest in discussing our intriguing thermochemical gasification 
tricks, as we have little interest in reformatting every damn gas list 
message, to preserve the much needed context.  
Which eventually has people lose interest in the gas list and we then 
lose valuable experience which otherwise could trigger the occational 
good new idea.

..I must first ask _if_, there is an interest in flogging this dead 
horse, here.  ;-)  

..flogging, I believe I'm past half way exected to share the 9-tailed. 

..first, the Gospel: "Email Quotes and Inclusion Conventions", 
by one of the founding hacker fathers of open source software: 
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/Email-Quotes.html

..once Herbert fixes his wee <br>-bug, my top 3 how-to's:
http://herbert.the-little-red-haired-girl.org/en/quoting/
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting.html
http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/mail/edit.html

..I'd like Sally to be much more firm:  the Gospel on netiquette: 
http://marketing.tenagra.com/rfc1855.html  and my top how-to:
http://www.newsreaders.com/guide/netiquette.html

..given an interest in the above, could anyone find and _test_, 
a recent guide on how to set up a _recent_ M$ Outlook client, 
on a per email list basis?  Could try start weeding from this 
_1_-line 547-hit search link here:
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=usenet+message+quote+style+guide&num=100&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=Outlook&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=off
(I don't have or run any M$ software.)  

..the other possible option is, if anyone can spare a box in their 
DMZ*, I can set up a mail list massage server for us the way we want it.

..(I'll need the ip-number or name of the box, and may need to 
have someone put a kick start diskette into and out of the box, 
everything else is done remotely over ssh.  Email me the details.)
(DMZ*=demilitarized zone, slang for server zone for public access, 
web servers, ftp servers and mail transport servers should be here, 
behind a firewall, not behind a firewall and inside the _internal_ net.
Ssh*=open source secure shell, an encrypted telnet replacement.)


-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with kind regards from Arnt...  ;-)

  Scenarios always come in sets of three:
  best case, worst case, and just in case.

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