Hello all,
Let me briefly pick on poor David's (unfortunately I could have picked
any number of posts on any given day just as well) recent emails [1]
[2]: they are prima example of very bad quoting. Again I do not expect
everybody to read through the mailinglist README [3] from cover to
cover. Especially not the linked RFC [4]. However if you do not at
least skim over it, please use some common sense. Every millisecond
spend making your post high quality will probably safe hours on a
global scale.
Thank you and I will try not to o too crazy with posts like this. I
might come up with one every few months if things get out of hand too
much. But hopefully the current posters will educate all future
posters indirectly by being role models :)
Sorry for the noise ..
regards,
Lukas
[1] http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=120369441121012&w=2
[2] http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=120369445521127&w=2
[3] http://ch2.php.net/reST/php-src/README.MAILINGLIST_RULES
[4] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
Hi Lukas!
Hello all,
Let me briefly pick on poor David's (unfortunately I could have picked
any number of posts on any given day just as well) recent emails [1]
[2]: they are prima example of very bad quoting. Again I do not expect
everybody to read through the mailinglist README [3] from cover to
cover. Especially not the linked RFC [4]. However if you do not at
least skim over it, please use some common sense. Every millisecond
spend making your post high quality will probably safe hours on a
global scale.
Using gmail helps to do not follow any rule as it simply hides
everything annoying automatically, even endless threads appear
suddenly manageable ;) But that's a poor excuse :D
--
Pierre
http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org
Hello Pierre,
Friday, February 22, 2008, 5:14:34 PM, you wrote:
Hi Lukas!
Hello all,
Let me briefly pick on poor David's (unfortunately I could have picked
any number of posts on any given day just as well) recent emails [1]
[2]: they are prima example of very bad quoting. Again I do not expect
everybody to read through the mailinglist README [3] from cover to
cover. Especially not the linked RFC [4]. However if you do not at
least skim over it, please use some common sense. Every millisecond
spend making your post high quality will probably safe hours on a
global scale.
Using gmail helps to do not follow any rule as it simply hides
everything annoying automatically, even endless threads appear
suddenly manageable ;) But that's a poor excuse :D
A good one though as David uses gmail exactly in this way :-)
But seriously, it is important to understand such issues, thanks for
pointing that out.
Best regards,
Marcus
Hello all,
Let me briefly pick on poor David's (unfortunately I could have picked
any number of posts on any given day just as well) recent emails [1]
[2]: they are prima example of very bad quoting. Again I do not expect
everybody to read through the mailinglist README [3] from cover to
cover. Especially not the linked RFC [4]. However if you do not at
least skim over it, please use some common sense. Every millisecond
spend making your post high quality will probably safe hours on a
global scale.Thank you and I will try not to o too crazy with posts like this. I
might come up with one every few months if things get out of hand too
much. But hopefully the current posters will educate all future
posters indirectly by being role models :)Sorry for the noise ..
regards,
Lukas[1] http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=120369441121012&w=2
[2] http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=120369445521127&w=2
[3] http://ch2.php.net/reST/php-src/README.MAILINGLIST_RULES
[4] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html--
Well well well, sorry everyone. I'm just too cool to follow the rules
:) Just kidding, I guess I will change email client and apply my
signature to myself as well :)
Good that you mentioned that Lukas, I know I am not the only
"internal" (? Can I say that?) that does bad replies and breaks the
mailing list etiquette (I do not even mention some of our favorite
users/posters). Just hope that this will whip some air and move people
around. Sure moved me.
--
David,
Re-read what you are replying... david
Well well well, sorry everyone. I'm just too cool to follow the rules
:) Just kidding, I guess I will change email client and apply my
signature to myself as well :)
I'm sure you will quote correctly next time.. won't you? :)
Although like Pierre said, quoting badly is not such a problem. The
volume of crappy unrelated replies to questions is more a nuisance,
and that, you can't make Gmail hide it. I don't want to lynch anyone
by that comment though.
Olivier
Well well well, sorry everyone. I'm just too cool to follow the rules
:) Just kidding, I guess I will change email client and apply my
signature to myself as well :)I'm sure you will quote correctly next time.. won't you? :)
Although like Pierre said, quoting badly is not such a problem.
Yes it is a problem if you get lots of email.
regards,
Derick
--
Derick Rethans
http://derickrethans.nl | http://ezcomponents.org | http://xdebug.org
Well well well, sorry everyone. I'm just too cool to follow the rules
:) Just kidding, I guess I will change email client and apply my
signature to myself as well :)I'm sure you will quote correctly next time.. won't you? :)
Although like Pierre said, quoting badly is not such a problem.
Yes it is a problem if you get lots of email.
By the way, what I said is that using gmail hides the problem but does
not solve it :)