On Thursday, November 20, 2014 4:17:33 PM UTC-8, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:59 AM, <sohcahto...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> (By the way, whatever tool you are using to post comments is badly breaking > >> attributions. It is polite to give the person's full name when quoting > >> them, when they provide one, if not give their full email address. > >> Truncating their email address to a single letter before the "@" has no > >> useful purpose and breaks attribution.) > > > > I use Google Groups which seems to be pretty unpopular on this list. Does > > it break thread organization? Or is it really just a politeness thing? > > It's about giving people proper credit for what they said. Compare the > two slabs of text that I quote above. One of them is clearly > attributed to a full email address (not a name, though it would have > been included if your post headers had provided one); the other, > because of the way I trimmed the quote, is completely unattributed. > You can't tell, from the above text, that the "By the way" parenthesis > was written by Steven D'Aprano. This is unfair on Steven, and unclear > for the next reader. > > (Caveat: Responsibility for quoting is primarily on the *first* person > to make the quote - the first level of chevrons. It's somewhat more > acceptable to omit re-attribution, as in my example above. But when > you're directly quoting people, you really need to include info about > who said what.) > > ChrisA
Fair enough. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
