On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 5:04 PM Stefan Krah skrah.temporarily@gmail.com wrote:

a) not top posting

b) not full quoting the entire thread

Sorry, by default Gmail hides the thread when replying so it’s easy to forget that you are re-mailing the whole thing out. So normally you would not even notice that someone has top posted or quoted the entire thread if you’re reading on Gmail’s web client. Chalk it up to my being a mailing list n00b.

I hope you also recognize that this particular piece of mailing list etiquette arose in a time where people did not have nice tooling to do the work for them, which is part of the point of this discussion.

c) properly quoting your predecessors.

OK, did I do it right this time?

I guess we’ll see more of that once the move to discourse has happened.

No such move has been agreed upon as far as I can tell, but if I may continue on my “soap box” and repeat what I’ve said earlier:

I think Discourse will make etiquette easier to follow by taking care of repetitive tasks like this for people, instead of requiring that everyone independently remember to do X, Y, and Z every time they post.

If you disagree, it would be good to hear why so we can discuss the root issue.

And for the record: I’m really taken aback by how cynical your comments are, and I apologize for ticking you off. I’ll do a better job of following mailing list etiquette going forward.

Nick