On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Philipp Thomas wrote:
decides he wants to impose some stupid NEW rules e-mail doesnt mean I give a rats ass. Those rules, commonly known as netiquette, go back to the times when internet was a purely academic thing, i.e. they are roughly two decades
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 21:32:38 -0600, John Ahrends wrote: old.
A bit older than that. It started with the OLD arpa NET from the DOD. To
allow the Universities and US Gov to interchange. It was done via modems
and I remember that we could do all the news groups on a 1200 Baud Modem.
That was the mid to late 70's. So that would be 3 decades. And it was
extremely bad ediquite to top post. I do not read a book from back to
front. So why would I do mail lists back to front. Just because MS can
not follow standards we have to put up with an entire un-educated MS
indoctrunated group that blindly follow MS and breaks the standards.
Please do not top post. It makes it hard to follow what is being said.
Thanks,
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Boyd Gerber