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Python and IDEs [was Re: Python 3 is killing Python]

Wolfgang Keller feliphil at gmx.net
Wed Aug 13 06:42:34 EDT 2014 
> >> By the way, you keep replying to people, and quoting them, but
> >> deleting their name. Please leave the attribution in place, so we
> >> know who you are replying to.
> > 
> > That's what the "References:"-Header is there for.
> 
> The References header is for the benefit of news and mail clients,
> not human readers.

Any half-decent news client will happily display a thread tree for you.
Based on that References:-Header.

> It is rude to deliberately refuse to give attributes:

> So please stop being rude, and follow the convention of both email and
> usenet (as well as broader society) to give attribution to those you
> quote.

I've been using mail and news for over 20 years now, you definitely
don't need to teach me anything.

End of subthread.

Good Bye,

Wolfgang
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