[BangPypers] Mailing list etiquette

http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Considering there's been a spate of similar incidents, I figured it might just be valuable to collect all these references into a thread of their own. - d PS- If I had a nickel for every time I've wanted to point people to this article, I'd be a ric

[BangPypers] Mailing list etiquette

Good old presentation [1] from mbuf. Please take time to read and understand. [1] http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf Kushal -- CPython Core Developer http://fedoraproject.org http://kushaldas.in ___ BangP

[BangPypers] Mailing list etiquette

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Re: [BangPypers] Mailing list etiquette

I agree with almost all of it, except for these 2. 1. No HTML emails 2. No attachments. These are surely relics from the past. I dont see any reason why these need to be valid anymore. If your answer to this is "my favorite ncurses client cant read it" it doesnt count. -jeff On Mon, Aug 4, 201

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On Mon, Aug 04 2014, Jeffrey Jose wrote: > I agree with almost all of it, except for these 2. > > 1. No HTML emails I don't like HTML emails because usual textual matter doesn't need it. It simply bloats things and if the renderer your client is using doesn't have some feature that the sender use

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On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Jeffrey Jose wrote: > I agree with almost all of it, except for these 2. > > 1. No HTML emails > 2. No attachments. > Most of the FOSS project mailing lists follow these simple rules. > These are surely relics from the past. I dont see any reason why these need > t

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On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Noufal Ibrahim KV wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04 2014, Jeffrey Jose wrote: > > > I agree with almost all of it, except for these 2. > > > > 1. No HTML emails > > I don't like HTML emails because usual textual matter doesn't need > it. It simply bloats things and if the re

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On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Noufal Ibrahim KV > wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 04 2014, Jeffrey Jose wrote: >> >> > I agree with almost all of it, except for these 2. >> > >> > 1. No HTML emails >> >> I don't like HTML emails because usual

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On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Noufal Ibrahim KV wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04 2014, Jeffrey Jose wrote: > > > I agree with almost all of it, except for these 2. > > > > 1. No HTML emails > > I don't like HTML emails because usual textual matter doesn't need > it. It simply bloats things and if the re

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On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Noufal Ibrahim KV > wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 04 2014, Jeffrey Jose wrote: >> >> > I agree with almost all of it, except for these 2. >> > >> > 1. No HTML emails >> >> I don't like HTML emails because usual

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> > Not only that, it is a pain to download something and open it in some >> application just to know what is inside. It is a lot better to send a link >> instead of sending attachments. >> > > ​Anand, how do you consume your emails? I get my emails on my phones as > well, in gmail, which has a pre

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On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > > > > Not only that, it is a pain to download something and open it in some > >> application just to know what is inside. It is a lot better to send a > link > >> instead of sending attachments. > >> > > > > ​Anand, how do you consume your

Re: [BangPypers] Mailing list etiquette

Hi Jeff, On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Jeffrey Jose wrote: > I agree with almost all of it, except for these 2. > > 1. No HTML emails I generally look at it from this perspective - Do we really need HTML to convey something ? Are plain words not sufficient enough to express ourselves ?

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On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Balachandran Sivakumar wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > I generally look at it from this perspective - Do we really > need HTML to convey something ? Are plain words not sufficient enough > to express ourselves ? Look at it as "Simple is better than complex" > :) Ag

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On Mon, Aug 04 2014, Jeffrey Jose wrote: [...] > ​I'm curious how do you read your mails? Noufal, if my memory serves me > right you're an emacs person. So emacs perhaps? > > I'm in the vim camp, so I use my browser for email.​ I download my email when I'm online and read them using either mutt

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On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:03 AM, Noufal Ibrahim KV wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04 2014, Jeffrey Jose wrote: > [...] > > >> ​.. and since I use browser, I appreciate an email that's nicely > > formatted. Yes, that includes contextual information with embedded > > images.​ > > Fair enough. However, large

Re: [BangPypers] Mailing list etiquette

On 2014-08-08 11:40, Saager Mhatre wrote: [..] Didn't we already have this discussion on this list? Besides, doesn't mailman let us set a limit on the attachment size? One configuration to rule them all! Not that I recall. Even so, it's not just the size of the attachment but that multiplied b