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Date Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:17:12 +1100
Subject Re: Most gratuitous comments
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:59 AM,  <sohcahtoa82@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

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Most gratuitous comments Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-20 04:58 +0000
  Re: Most gratuitous comments Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-20 16:06 +1100
  Re: Most gratuitous comments Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-11-20 12:04 +0000
  Re: Most gratuitous comments sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2014-11-20 10:52 -0800
    Re: Most gratuitous comments cl@isbd.net - 2014-11-20 21:32 +0000
      Re: Most gratuitous comments sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2014-11-20 13:43 -0800
        Re: Most gratuitous comments Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-21 10:16 +1100
          Re: Most gratuitous comments sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2014-11-20 15:59 -0800
            Re: Most gratuitous comments Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-21 11:17 +1100
              Re: Most gratuitous comments sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2014-11-20 16:19 -0800
                Re: Most gratuitous comments Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-21 11:33 +1100
            Re: Most gratuitous comments Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-21 08:52 +0200
              Re: Most gratuitous comments Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-11-21 17:04 +0000
              Re: Most gratuitous comments Marco Buttu <marco.buttu@gmail.com> - 2014-11-25 13:40 +0100
                Re: Most gratuitous comments Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-25 14:53 +0200
                Re: Most gratuitous comments Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-26 01:47 +1100
      Re: Most gratuitous comments Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-11-20 23:18 +0000
    Re: Most gratuitous comments Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-11-20 21:39 -0500
  Re: Most gratuitous comments Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2014-11-20 20:09 +0100
  Re: Most gratuitous comments albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-12-04 09:48 +0000
    Re: Most gratuitous comments Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@technologyhighland.invalid> - 2014-12-04 09:12 -0800
  Re: Most gratuitous comments sjmsoft@gmail.com - 2014-12-04 07:08 -0800

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