Request to mailing list Python-list rejected

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Apr 5 15:59:00 EDT 2016


On 04/05/2016 12:12 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 05/04/2016 08:34, Oscar Benjamin wrote:

>> When did this start happening?
>>
>> The message in question includes a big block of code posted by someone
>> else
>> as context. My comment was that the code was incomplete so I felt it
>> reasonable to include it as context.
>
> It wasn't I who rejected it, but for accuracy's sake: the list does in
> fact have an upper size limit, beyond which posts are automatically held
> for moderation. My own policy is -- if the post is clearly pukka as I
> imagine yours would have been -- to let it through. Presumably in this
> case one of the other moderators was feeling rather more zealous and
> decided to bounce it. I'll let him speak for himself if he wishes.

Twas I that did it.  I find it highly aggravating to scroll through 
pages of quoted whatever for a simple comment at the end.  If it's not a 
PEP, or obviously non-quoted anywhere-close-to-on-topic content, I bounce.

--
~Ethan~



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