[Mailman-Developers] Pastebin considered "suboptimal" [was: Mailman-bundler installation]

Adam McGreggor adam-mailman at amyl.org.uk
Tue Mar 8 07:11:57 EST 2016


On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 05:42:33PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Daman Singh writes:
>  > Here is a small suggestion, instead of pasting terminal text here you
>  > should consider using pastebin.

On the plus side, it was as text, not as a screen shot of a terminal
session…

> -1.  Pastebin goes away, making the post useless to anybody who
> experiences the same problem in the future.  Even while it lasts, it
> mean you have to search the whole web rather than site:mail.python.org
> for something you *know* you saw on mailman-developers.  (Google
> doesn't care, I suspect, but you can thin out the results quite
> quickly with a site: spec.)

And of course, follow the link to read the contents, rather than just
seeing it in your mail client (with the added bonus of being able to
make in-line replies; rather than clone (as pastebin doesn't have fork
like gists do))

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