Re: [BangPypers] Posting style
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: On Tuesday 20 Oct 2009 5:28:52 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: Hi, I hope this link would be useful for some newly joined members: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style This helped me when I first ventured into mailing lists and IRC http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htmlhttp://catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html here are the guidelines for ilugc: http://demo.ilugc.org.in/report/4/ I have a feeling, far out in the future when driving on either side of the road will be just as convenient, we shall still continue to see ex traffic wardens attempting to enforce drive on the left or drive on the right rules simply because thats the way things are done over here - quite oblivious to the fact that the rest of the world really doesn't care a whiff. I sometimes do wonder why it counts for so much - I mean I can read top / bottom / interleaved posts with adequate comfort without having to bother to pause to wonder what style of post it is. The best rules are those which are never imposed :) -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers -- blog: http://blog.dhananjaynene.com twitter: http://twitter.com/dnene http://twitter.com/_pythonic ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Posting style
On Wednesday 21 Oct 2009 1:59:13 pm Dhananjay Nene wrote: I have a feeling, far out in the future when driving on either side of the road will be just as convenient, how will that be achieved? If people chose which side they wanted to drive on would they not crash into each other? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Posting style
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: Hi, I hope this link would be useful for some newly joined members: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style This helped me when I first ventured into mailing lists and IRC http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Posting style
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Tuesday 20 Oct 2009 3:53:40 pm Baiju M wrote: Hi, I hope this link would be useful for some newly joined members: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style I am afraid this is going to confuse readers - what we need is 'which of these styles is preferred on this list?', or we need to state that this list is agnostic to posting styles. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Posting style
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: Hi, I hope this link would be useful for some newly joined members: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style This helped me when I first ventured into mailing lists and IRC http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htmlhttp://catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html +121 This needs to be compulsory reading for those who post to forums especially n00bs so that they don't become lusers. I will add this link to welcome message of this list. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers -- --Anand ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Posting style
On Tuesday 20 Oct 2009 5:28:52 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.com wrote: Hi, I hope this link would be useful for some newly joined members: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style This helped me when I first ventured into mailing lists and IRC http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html here are the guidelines for ilugc: http://demo.ilugc.org.in/report/4/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Posting style
On Tuesday 20 Oct 2009 5:33:21 pm Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: This helped me when I first ventured into mailing lists and IRC http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htmlhttp://catb.org/%7Eesr/faq s/smart-questions.html +121 This needs to be compulsory reading for those who post to forums especially n00bs so that they don't become lusers. I will add this link to welcome message of this list. once again I need to emphasise that first we need to decide whether this list will have recommended posting guidelines - else, every time anyone is reminded of it he will say 'who you to tell me how to post?' -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Posting style
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: On Tuesday 20 Oct 2009 5:33:21 pm Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: This helped me when I first ventured into mailing lists and IRC http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htmlhttp://catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://catb.org/%7Eesr/faq s/smart-questions.html +121 This needs to be compulsory reading for those who post to forums especially n00bs so that they don't become lusers. I will add this link to welcome message of this list. once again I need to emphasise that first we need to decide whether this list will have recommended posting guidelines - else, every time anyone is reminded of it he will say 'who you to tell me how to post?' Yes. It is better to have some guidelines and being informed up front when joining the list than having to remind each and every person, do this, do that, don't do this, don't use attachments, don't X post etc... -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers -- --Anand ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Posting style
On Tuesday 20 Oct 2009 6:19:14 pm steve wrote: Yes. It is better to have some guidelines and being informed up front when joining the list than having to remind each and every person, do this, do that, don't do this, don't use attachments, don't X post etc... I vote for mandating interleaved posting and non-html mail. The non-html is because, looking at code, especially python code, in a variable width font is painful and interleaved posting because it just is the most natural manner to carry on a conversation with more than one person. I suggest that we more or less adopt something similar to what ILUGC has, Anand may make suitable modifications and put it up in a wiki page - after an appropriate period it may become holy writ. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
