From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FROM,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 21791 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2023 19:46:54 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 23 Dec 2023 19:46:54 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA7D44105A; Sun, 24 Dec 2023 05:46:48 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-io1-xd29.google.com (mail-io1-xd29.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::d29]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 598FE41048 for ; Sun, 24 Dec 2023 05:46:35 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-io1-xd29.google.com with SMTP id ca18e2360f4ac-7ba9f24acf8so72349239f.2 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2023 11:46:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20230601; t=1703360794; x=1703965594; darn=tuhs.org; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=xk3icxoDYhYdfGxl6dZrVBMjHOx8X3p9ntRYr2sE/Qc=; b=Vu79seSm/KDO3NV9NaS1D5nBbDa56XXHQg07gnkqE449cdkAK4CZrcqbqTIV29bc1e JbaILSczk+8kCsO3IZX1wB/Wt+mDzmHbD5L2QVtAXUa1h8RwrQwVEoqjCWWlqxvbPKKw 7DyM1NVWeYNpQYXJhTa4TUWELIwWJ/hIv4YsFcu08eCUUiVBg9QgpcCqD21nMymjlU4F RUxK+feJDh9ycPYwgi2Cd2wIE4qG6oQKT4LcbbKT3OF/rqFiB+Ms1OjLCc+pA7t5mYig Om4BvXlcburpEMfCpacnz8ouHav3fKmlPb31+wehrwFr8NR3EjT/jUD3xMc6JRZjIqUj YHag== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1703360794; x=1703965594; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=xk3icxoDYhYdfGxl6dZrVBMjHOx8X3p9ntRYr2sE/Qc=; b=QsdWqaejj3/8b9LUbFYMgpoesrQq5eOV53gp845/VgHz8OPmtZJv0X9jEOS+gZGTjV oLhgB8WD8Fz+ZGErurUbO9rQCmRyBN9+nyb+jhCJX7XPMuknxSRc9b6WR4BeNK6BKuHA xtxl6xz0HSe6zLHnDKEaSW99qLBt6yR7lzIOO5sZz+aFSI/7oAmGKHago6k9y/+b2+id S9tpLT2OxlkOQvzhnSFr3g4HvkmQOGA0HTPXaEY5zZE+Z0o18/T8ToWgABvgbxFNseSn 5IRIEdi2kO3ltj1qgfvDh7+DFF8iahNEvKoj6rMhT2e+eUK5rmnQKNmbbRoSCHQwtCGQ ehpQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0YwcZDwu9pQ7nWg0OO/n2g4tECGs5hZWiblnR1UIaBfS0gZUKvwT Gi97JpCyV/dXC9zxpTmR3JWjawuSXt0OftwFe7W/LCiE X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IFLLdWxwpKOML7uKeT0HCJDwCAlaA4j2VMZGS/hyoTsrg74Yy5XlRI+tc7wTx3Y8H63qnv+zVgmybzxYoeQayM= X-Received: by 2002:a6b:e40d:0:b0:7ba:7c57:f19e with SMTP id u13-20020a6be40d000000b007ba7c57f19emr4506365iog.14.1703360794569; Sat, 23 Dec 2023 11:46:34 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 2002:a05:6a10:670c:b0:52a:96f1:6718 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Dec 2023 11:46:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Paul Winalski Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 14:46:34 -0500 Message-ID: To: segaloco Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-ID-Hash: NVH35Z5N5H4PXWP4QGZUIN6IYHG5FAAF X-Message-ID-Hash: NVH35Z5N5H4PXWP4QGZUIN6IYHG5FAAF X-MailFrom: paul.winalski@gmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Historic "Communications Etiquette" Practices? List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 12/23/23, segaloco via TUHS wrote: > > What this has me curious on is if in the early days of UNIX there were > attempts at suggesting which provided communication mechanisms were > appropriate for what. In the early days of Unix and Usenet terminal speeds were very slow--10 characters/second if you were on an acoustic modem dial-up line. Slow line speeds dictated two major communications etiquette rules: o Be terse and to the point. Don't waste your readers' time by being excessively verbal or by unnecessarily quoting previous posts in the discussion stream. And sending an email just to say "thank you" was considered being rude, not courteous, because you were wasting your correspondents' time. Similarly avoid "me too" messages. This caused quite the culture clash when AOL users were let loose on Usenet. AOL charged their customers based on their connect time, and so they encouraged a culture of excessive (by Unix standards) verbosity. o Don't top-post when replying to emails. You can't scroll down to see the context of the reply when working on a printing terminal. -Paul W.