On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Nathaniel Smith
On May 24, 2015 8:43 AM,
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
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