[Inpycon] Mail threads

[Noufal Ibrahim]

Hello everyone,
    We interrupt you broadcast for a small bit of administrivia.

    It's healthy to see a large amount of discussion on the mailing list. 
One little rule which newcomers can follow to help people sort through 
the matters being discussed is to keep threads on topic.

    If a mail thread (or conversation for you gmail'ers) is going on 
about a a topic (e.g. volunteering), please don't reply back to the 
thread with an email talking about a bug on the website. Start a 
separate thread for that with an appropriate subject line.

    If a thread is running for along time and the topic has gradually 
changed or if you're forking the discussion to go off on a tangent which 
is separate from, though relevant to, the original thread, please change 
the subject to "X (was Y)" in the subject so that people know where the 
fork has happened straight from the inbox.

    Please don't top post. Top posting is okay for one on one 
conversation where it's sort of an old fashioned IM. However, top 
posting in a mailing list makes each email in the thread bigger than the 
previous. I finally had a moderation request for an email which got 
blocked because the body was too big. It's also harder to read 
especially if you're trying to make a nuanced reply.

    Now we return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

Thanks!