Rudeness with names (was Re: interpreted)

[D.W.]

Can we also include people who include the entire thread with the 
reply?  This is rude to the reader who has to sift through pages of 
text just to find the most recent comment, and, in a way, rude to 
yahoo by wasting their storage space, which they provide at no charge 
to the group?  My only comment to the thread, even though it is 
interesting, it will likely change nothing.

D.W.

--- In python-list at yahoogroups.com, Gerhard Häring <gh at g...> wrote:
> Aahz wrote:
> > Gerhard Häring wrote:
> >>Ifman1 wrote:
> >>
> >>>what do you mean "anonymous coward"???
> >>
> >>Somebody not using their real name on usenet and using a pseudonym 
like 
> >>"Ifman1" instead. I call these people "anonymous cowards" :-)^
> >>
> >>In some cases it's their intention to use these pseudonyms, in 
some 
> >>cases they just haven't set up their mail client properly. In any 
case, 
> >>I give them a nudge this way.
> > 
> > Well, I wasn't paying much attention earlier, but I have to say 
that I
> > consider this rather rude.  How the heck do you know what someone
's
> > "real name" is?  
> 
> I can't know. But then there are cases where someone just was 
careless 
> when configuring his/her mail/news client. That's why I give them a 
> nudge in case they weren't aware of it. If they *are* aware of it, 
they 
> can ignore it :)
> 
> I too feel offended by:
> 
> - anonymous posters
> - top-posting
> - broken quoting
> 
> In one word: carelessness.
> 
> Occasionally I will make originators aware of this. If you can't 
live 
> with this, feel free to killfile me.
> 
> > I say this as someone who received more than my fair
> > share of such rudeness.
> 
> Ditto for me and the above rudenesses.
> 
> There's probably little point in continuing this discussion on 
> python-list, though IMO. Reply-To set.
> 
> -- Gerhard
> 
> 
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