[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

On 2010-08-05 12:51, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article<i3drnc$hq2$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>  writes:
>> On 2010-08-05 02:45, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> In article<slrni5k050.6eb.BRAD at rabbit.turquoisewitch.com>, BRAD at rabbit.turquoisewitch.com () writes:
>>>> {...snip...}
>>>>
>>>> I'm not bothered by "quoted pukeable" as much as Brian is, but it can be
>>>> distracting and annoying in its extreme forms, especially when folks don't
>>>> trim and bottom-post.
>>>>
>>>>> Take a giant step into the twenty-first century!
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When I took a VMS job in a Windows-centric shop, I was taken to task by the
>>>> Windows weenies and non-IT types, when I insisted on replying to emails on
>>>> Outhouse using fixed-width font, trimming, and bottom-posting.  I was even
>>>> accused by one administrative business type of being "rude" by doing so!
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Top posting is an abomination that dwarfs quoted-pukeable.  There's no way
>>> to follow a conversation with idiots that top post.
>>>
>>> I've been working on a project now for about 6 month.  All of the emails I
>>> receive are MIME.  I need to pass them to my Mac or Linux to read them.  I
>>> then have to reformat them because people can't recall where the carriage
>>> return key is on their keyboards.  To add insult to the injury, the message
>>> is amlost always top posted including a history of the last umpteen email
>>> exchanges.  I take the time to trim and clean it all up only to get the
>>> latest replies merged back into the old stream.  It's slowed the progress
>>> of the project significantly and many issues have escaped notice because of
>>> this practice.
>>
>> It might have helped the project to have found someone
>> more professional and open-minded. The way you act does more
>> harm to VMS then it helps (VMS). Grow up...
>
> Professional and open-minded?  This from the guy that uses a toy (WEENDOZE)
> OS.
>
> What would have helped these projects would have been to be working on the
> projects significantly more than wasting countless hours processing emails
> and then sifting through the volumes to figure out what one-liner replies
> were referring to because of the lack of proper quoting.
>
> When I went off to college, I learned that papers would not be accepted if
> sources were not properly quoted.  This helps to provide a quick and exact
> way to reference the content quoted within.  The same argument should stand
> for professional email exchanges.  When I'm working with people in +/-8hour
> or more time zones, wasting a day because of poor email habits does NOT get
> the project out the door quickly.
>

Adapting to your customer is what would have saved both
you and the customer the most time, probably...