Re: Posting Netiquette [ref: Threads "look definitely like" unreadable mess. Handbook project.]

From: Chris <bsd-lists_at_bsdforge.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 16:19:49 UTC 
On 2022-06-23 01:14, grarpamp wrote:
>>> the “> ;† and leave empty lines between your text and the original
> 
>> Seems there is a charset mismatch.
>> MUA displaying nonsense
>> Oh the joy of UTF-8... ;-)
> 
> https://unicode-table.com/en/sets/quotation-marks/
> 
> The pages ...
> 
> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/eresources/#eresources-mail
> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/freebsd-questions/
> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/mailing-list-faq/
> 
> ... are intermixing standard ASCII double quotes with questionably
> gratuitous choice of using left and right double quotes via UTF-8,
> which then may get slaughtered by non UTF-8 enabled cut-paste,
> systems, lists, gui's, desktops, apps, and MUAs along the way.
> 
...
> A proper page would need to add a number of the missing
> email formatting netiquettes (such as no HTML), and actual
> photo examples of former bad chaos and new good result, etc...
> to be considered a good format, subject, and addressing
> netiquette guide rule page.
> 
> Consider if "FreeBSD Articles" is best hier for a page that
> may becoming more often directly linked or included into
> prospective list user's signup clickstream, quarterly admin,
> friendly cluebat hints, etc.
> 
What is the possibility of getting the/a "netiquette" link in
the FreeBSD Mailinglist footer that is already appended to all
the messages? This would only be a small addition, with a quick/
easy reference to the subject at hand.

Just my .2¢

Chris