On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:41:09PM +0000, MJ Ray typed the following...
http://learn.to/attribute while I'm being prescriptive.
...and that's all MJ Ray wrote I'm afraid
OK, it took me a while to work this one out, and I've decided that, apart for being a bit verbose the main difference is the lack of the email address, so given that I've deliberately chosen not to include that in mine I thought I'd post why - oh no more controversy ;-)
Basically I avoid quoting emails (other than my own) to lists where possible. To be honest the main source of issues with this is the SmoothWall list (less said the better), but it has to be said that since the SmoothWall list was made available as a web archive (now closed again), my spam quota has rocketed, and become more unpleasant. I now get some really distasteful porn spam, and this is undoubtedly harvested (apart from the obvious fact that I don't frequent sites of that sort) because it comes to paul@smooth..., community@smooth... as well as my personal paul@whale... and paul@apta... addresses. 99% of the time there is no way to unsubscribe even though some give details of how to (the domains usually don't exist or are not active).
Took a quick look at the ALUG archives and I see that this is not considered a problem here (no hiding of email addresses at all), so I suspect that I know your views here ;-)