Abhilash Raj writes:

Questions and answers seperated by a 3 hour window makes me feel like its not even a question,

Maybe we should add "suppress threads with self-responses" to Aanand's list of plugins? :-) (@Aanand -- it's impossible, so this is just a joke.)

If anyone feels this was totally unnecessary, please correct me.

I don't think Andrew has been abusive, just enthusiastic. That's just a data point to say "YMMV but I had barely noticed".

If I were bothered, I probably would have mailed him personally rather than posting to the net, or asked Barry and Mark out of band if something should be said.

That said, self-replies should be *very* rare according to traditional netiquette, and generally restricted to (1) corrections of substantive errors in the query, and (2) the summary followup to "reply-to set to me; will summarize" posts. On the whole Internet, netiquette is changing. However, Mailman is an *old* project, and most of the active developers have been around for quite some time (though I daresay none of us remember a time without FORTRAN or LISP), and we are most comfortable with the Emily Postnews (remember her? probably not, you need to be *old* and listening on port 119 :-) version of netiquette.

BTW, I *am* attempting to channel Barry and Mark, though with what success they'll need to say. I don't mean to criticize any person's behavior (IMO so far all has been compatible with the netiquette I believe is practiced on this list). I think it's worth having a public discussion *right now*, because we're coming up on GSoC and we'll have a pile of newbies coming in. (At least, I hope so!) It's best if we have a common policy.

IMHO FWIW YMMV and we'll all adjust our watches to Barry's, of course.

Regards, Steve