>> we shouldn’t abandon the standard because it’s difficult to keep it
>>up.
>
> We should abandon the approach when its cost is higher than its
> benefit though. If this is just an occasional nudge, it's fine.
> But if I remember right, I think Werner was talking about
> top-posting (an expression I learned the meaning of in that very
> email) not two months ago. Two messages in two months make me think
> we might actually have reached a point where we might reconsider
> this thing.
For a single e-mail exchange it makes (sometimes) sense to have the
complete history embedded (say, contacting a service hotline or the
like). However, for a *mailing list* this behaviour makes zero sense.
> I think that if this "email etiquette" thing costs us developer
> participation,
Well, the average new kid on the block neither uses command-line
programs nor e-mails...
Werner
