Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 29/03/09 21:07, _sc_ wrote: > > > > On Sunday 29 March 2009 1:36 pm, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > > >> Maybe emails would be more homogeneously formatted if we systematically > >> gave scathing dessing-downs to anyone deviating from the rules. But do > >> we want to? I mean, what do we prefer? Civilized language or adherence > >> to the rules? I'm not sure we can have both. > > > > what i don't understand is why, when someone wants to correct > > non-conforming behavior, they feel the need to post to the entire > > group as opposed to emailing the offending party individually > > > > why take the bandwidth of posting to all when the vast majority of > > posters do understand and try to follow the group's protocol? > > > > sc > > Possible answers: > - So any lurkers may benefit by it. > - So other old-timers know that no additional flames to that user are > necessary at the mo'. > - Because of Google Groups' braindead Reply-To munging, which makes any > "Reply to sender" go to the whole group instead. I haven't read all messages in this thread, it's way too long. Please keep discussions about list policy short. This list is about Vim, not about maillist policies. If someone breaks the rules, please send them a message personally, don't send to the group. Nobody needs to be punished in public. Sending the list policy to the list weekly sounds like a good idea. It's easy to ignore if you already know about it, it is a good reminder for people who just joined, and avoids people having the excuse that they didn't know about it. It can be a short summary of the rules and suggestions, with a link to the page with more information. About top- or bottom posting: Let's use inline posting. That forces you to only quote the relevant parts of the previous message(s). Quoting a whole thread and then bottom posting one sentence isn't much better than top posting. -- A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
