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RFC 1855: Quoting and attribution should be specifically addressed in...

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Comment by Christopher Osborne
Submitted on 8/13/2005
Related RFC: RFC 1855
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Quoting and attribution should be specifically addressed in full section.Both e-mail and Usenet are relatively similar in this.Message boards with their quoting tags should also be discussed.Top-Posting: Should be clearly identified as inappropriate and detrimental to the logical flow of conversation, at least as far as English language postings are concerned (the English language flows top-down, not bottom-up).Quoting: Whenever someone else's text is quoted, it must be preceded by the appropriate number of caret ">" characters, or the appropriate number of quoting tags. A poster should never place their own text in such a manner to appear at the same "quoting level" with another's text, as this confuses the issue of who posted what. In the mass sea of Internet communication, errors in quoting will produce errors in understanding, and so proper quoting should be maintained at all times.Attribution: Each separate snippet of posted text must be fully attributed every single time. As posts are quoted and re-quoted, un-attributed text rapidly becomes unidentifiable, and the conversation becomes impossible to follow. Proper attribution should be used at all times as a simple and effective form of maintaining the logical flow of an identifiable conversation, and as a simple form of courtesy to the original poster of the quoted text.

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