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 as BTW: I'm glad Anne is back with scipy. Josef > -n > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > >
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