Quoting Email and news software generally offers a quoting facility, because quoting is an important feature of electronic messages,whether public or private. People often read large numbers of messages every day, so they need to see some of the text you're replying to in order to understand your message. As the net gains in popularity, this annoying phenomenon is growing. TLAs, emoticons, flames These occur in both news and mail. They are very common on the net.
Emoticons are textual representations of emotion.
You need to look at them sideways. Flames are abusive messages. There are areas where flames are constructed and admired as a sort of artform, but often flames are the product of rudeness, self-righteousness, or a very poor command of written language. Mailing lists Multiple copies of an email message can be sent to nominated addresses. A mailing list is an automated and expanded type ofe-mail.