On Friday, April 11, 2014 10:41:26 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > > Right. Its true that when I was at a fairly large corporate, I was not told: > > "Please always top post!" > > > > What I was very gently and super politely told was: > > "Please dont delete mail context" > > Then you were told that by someone who does not understand email.
In middle-eastern society women are expected to dress heavier than in the West. A few years ago a girl went to school in France with a scarf and she was penalized. You seem to be cocksure who is right. Im just curious who you think it is :-) People whose familiarity with religion is limited to the Judeo-Christian tradition are inclined to the view (usually implicit) that "being religious" == "belief in God" However there are religions where belief in God is irreligious -- Jainism And others where it is is irrelevant -- Tao, Shinto. [There is the story of a westerner who wen to a shinto temple and said: All this (rites) is fine and beautiful but what's your *philosophy* To which he was told: "Philosophy? We have no philosophy! We dance!"] > > That's equivalent to being told "Don't ever delete any of your code, > just comment it out". I don't care who's saying that, it's bad advice. The correct analogy: "Dont ever delete content from the repository" > > > Now when a mail goes round between 5 persons and what is addressed at one > > point > > is not the immediate previous mail, bottom-posting without pruning is as > > meaningless as top posting. > > > Yep. So you bottom-post *and prune*, because that is how email needs > to be. You do not need to repeatedly send copies of the whole thread > everywhere. > > > > What is unhelpful is > > - to suggest that my norms are universal norms. IOW there is a fundamental > > difference between natural and human-made laws > > - to lose track of statistics, in this case the population-densities of > > USENET > > vs other internet-kiddie cultures > > > > Also unhelpful is to suggest that norms should, simply *because* they > are the prevailing practice, be maintained. Even if everyone else on > python-list top-posted, I would still bottom-post and trim. "Normal" > is not a justification. Ok no argument here. On the python list that is the norm. Most people who are first timers have no clue about that norm. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list