On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:27:25 -0500, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2014-08-12 10:11, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> It is rude to deliberately refuse to give attributes > > While I find this true for first-level attribution, I feel far less > obligation to attribute additional levels (and the verbosity they > entail). If the reader is really that interested in who said what, then > they can go back to previous posts to disinter that information.
I cannot disagree with that. I consider that the first-level attribution MUST be given, second-level SHOULD be given, and third- and subsequent levels MAY be given, where MUST/SHOULD/MAY have their conventional meanings from RFC 2119. https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt With one proviso: if you respond *directly* to something quoted at the Nth-level, for any N, (as opposed to merely leaving it in to establish context), then you MUST given an attribution. Even if that attribution is just "Sorry, I don't know who said this", you ought to make an honest effort to give credit to those you quote directly. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
