> From: Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Peculiarities in usenet resulted in this discussion having several > > threads and I missed some messages before I wrote this email. > > I'll put this more bluntly: Warren's messages to date > egregiously break the flow of discussion. > > Warren, in the interest of sane discussion in these forums, please: > > * preserve attribution lines on quoted material so we can see who > wrote what. > > * use the convention of ?New subject (was: Old subject)? when you > change the ?Subject? field of a message. > > * switch to a client that preserves threading in messages you send, > i.e. that properly constructs the ?References? and ?In-Reply-To? > fields. > > General advice good for everyone, of course, but particularly > apropos to this reply. Any one of the above is detrimental to > omit; striking on all three makes a discussion almost > impossible to follow. (Thank you, though, for avoiding the > worse habit of top posting!)
Thank so much for the suggestions Ben. Sorry that I am personally unable to live up to your high standards, but it is nevertheless an honor to partipicate in such a helpful and mutually respectful community mailing list! Warren -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list