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RFC 1855: To quote or not to quoteThere are a few lines In RFC 1855...

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Comment by Alle van Meeteren
Submitted on 4/20/2005
Related RFC: RFC 1855
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To quote or not to quoteThere are a few lines In RFC 1855 about quoting.In the one-to-one section, I found:- Be brief without being overly terse. When replying to a message, include enough original material to be understood but no more. It is extremely bad form to simply reply to a message by including all the previous message: edit out all the irrelevant material. In the one-to-many section, I found:- If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just enough text of the original to give a context. This will make sure readers understand when they start to read your response. Since NetNews, especially, is proliferated by distributing the postings from one host to another, it is possible to see a response to a message before seeing the original. Giving context helps everyone. But do not include the entire original! I defer from these rules, that quoting is sometimes helpful, but it is not necessary to quote. It is also possible to refer indirectly to the former message. I prefer the referring method in cases where there is more at stake in the discussion than sharing information.

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