[Tutor] How to post: Was Re: The Charms of Gmail

[Oscar Benjamin]

On 22 December 2013 21:01, Dominik George <nik at naturalnet.de> wrote:
>
> And it is what I hate *most*, especially on mailing lists. It makes me
> want to call for a complete GMail ban, because it appears GMail users
> *always* manage to do such things ...

Can we please focus on being welcoming to newcomers instead of making
unfounded generalisations?

I think it's very unfortunate that so many threads on python-list get
hijacked by flame wars about newsgroup etiquette but I don't want to
make it worse by wading in on them there. At least here in the tutor
list can we just try to be inviting? Keith has received several (IMO)
slightly rude and unhelpful replies about how to post here and now
you're having a go at all gmail users! Every email client has its
quirks and gmail is no exception but it can be used in a perfectly
reasonable way.

Suggestions about how to post should be given as advice rather than
criticism. It's obvious that the expected conduct on this list (no
plain-text, interleaved reply, quote attribution etc.) are surprising
to the majority of newcomers here. So when someone isn't aware of the
conventions or doesn't yet know how to follow them with their
technology then we shouldn't be surprised and certainly shouldn't make
them feel inadequate.

In short, if you're not going to offer constructive advice then please
don't bother. Being inviting to newcomers - showing *real* etiquette -
is significantly more important than at-all-times maintaining
newsgroup etiquette.


Oscar