On May 24, 2015 11:04 AM, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >> On May 24, 2015 8:43 AM, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Reminder: we are bottom or inline posting >> >> Can we stop hassling people about this? Inline replies are a great tool to have in your toolkit for complicated technical discussions, but I feel like our weird insistence on them has turned into a pointless and exclusionary thing. It's not like bottom replying is even any better -- the traditional mailing list rule is you trim quotes to just the part you're replying to (like this message); quoting the whole thing and replying underneath just to give people a bit of exercise for their scrolling finger would totally have gotten you flamed too. >> >> But email etiquette has moved on since the 90s, even regular posters to this list violate this "rule" all the time, it's time to let it go. > > > It's not a 90's thing and I learned about it around 2009 when I started in here. > I find it very annoying trying to catch up with a longer thread and the replies are all over the place. > > > Anne is a few years older than I in terms of numpy and scipy participation and this was just intended to be a friendly reminder.
And while I know you didn't mean it this way, I'm guessing that being immediately greeted by criticism for failing to follow some arbitrary and inconsistently-applied rule was indeed a strong reminder of what a unpleasant place FOSS mailing lists can sometimes be, and why someone might disappear from them for a few years. I think we can do better. This is pretty off-topic for this thread, though, see so let's let it lie here. If anyone desperately needs to comment further please email me off-list. -n
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