'netiquette (was: [antlr-interest] Again help with pl/sql grammar)
John D. Mitchell
johnm-antlr at non.net
Thu Apr 22 09:02:25 PDT 2004
Thanks, Ric, for the great response. I'll just hit a few points and then
shut up. :-)
Oh and BTW, 'netiquette nanny says: Remember to change the subject line
when changing the subject being discussed in your message!
>>>>> "Ric" == Ric Klaren <klaren at cs.utwente.nl> writes:
>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 01:40:34PM +0200, Boulanger Jean-Louis wrote:
[...]
>> The first "John D. Mitchell" mail are so "direct" for me and indicate
>> that is a rule.
> It's indeed quite common that one medium to high volume mailinglists some
> care has to be taken about the size of the attachments you send.
Indeed. As with all "etiquette", it is phrased as a "rule" but is really a
"guideline" to help make conversation amongst members of a community more
valuable/useful/etc. to everybody, not just one person.
[...]
>> If you see antlr archive you can find many message with file attached
>> and it's not a bad thing.
> That's true. I only think that yahoogroups at times mangles/deletes
> attachments in the archives. And in this case a buggy grammar.
Indeed, having multiple copies of a bad grammar in the archives is, IMHO, a
very bad thing.
Also, there is a spot for complete, (good, I hope) grammars on the Antlr
web site.
Finally, again, there's a big difference between a small test grammar which
shows the specific problem and just posting an entire work in progress and
saying "here it is, I know it sucks, please fix it for me."
[...]
> Note that nobody's policing some other things that are assumed to be bad
> nettiquette like bad quoting, not pruning quotes, messages with excessive
> signatures (like some companies with complete disclaimers in signatures,
> the yahoogroups spam added to the end etc.) HTML mail. So this list is
> quite relaxed anyway ;)
Actually, I send out nags about those things too. I just don't do it very
often. :-)
Take care,
John
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