Comments on: RFC 1855: nostalgic netiquette http://geeketiquette.com/archives/2007/06/10/rfc-1855-nostalgic-netiquette/ Emily Post for the digital generation. Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:23:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Monica http://geeketiquette.com/archives/2007/06/10/rfc-1855-nostalgic-netiquette/comment-page-1/#comment-18082 Monica Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:15:36 +0000 http://geeketiquette.com/archives/2007/06/10/rfc-1855-nostalgic-netiquette/#comment-18082 "Your network privileges will be revoked": ah, those were the days. :-) Not that I want to sound like too much of an elitist, but until the September That Never Ended, it was actually more or less possible to educate the newbies *and* the net was obscure enough that not being allowed on wasn't a major hinderance. Now, of course, anyone with a credit card can be connected and there's a broad presumption that people are. I'm pretty sure you're right about the Outlook abomination. I'm curious about what efforts were made at the time to get Microsoft to consider fixing it. (Not that they necessarily would have, but what kind of pressure was brought to bear? Did we just let them get away with it until the Outlook monster had taken over the world?) I read my personal mail using pine on a Unix box. At work I am required to use Outlook, but I force everything to plain text. Both of these protect me from the cutsey colorful goofy-fonted signatures you mentioned, though of course the verbose ones are still verbose. “Your network privileges will be revoked”: ah, those were the days. :-) Not that I want to sound like too much of an elitist, but until the September That Never Ended, it was actually more or less possible to educate the newbies *and* the net was obscure enough that not being allowed on wasn’t a major hinderance. Now, of course, anyone with a credit card can be connected and there’s a broad presumption that people are.

I’m pretty sure you’re right about the Outlook abomination. I’m curious about what efforts were made at the time to get Microsoft to consider fixing it. (Not that they necessarily would have, but what kind of pressure was brought to bear? Did we just let them get away with it until the Outlook monster had taken over the world?)

I read my personal mail using pine on a Unix box. At work I am required to use Outlook, but I force everything to plain text. Both of these protect me from the cutsey colorful goofy-fonted signatures you mentioned, though of course the verbose ones are still verbose.

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