Jens, I appreciate your advice. Thank you for reminding me of the "rules." You have a valid point that I could have left a particular snippet of the original post to make clear what I was referring to, since the subject line apparently wasn't enough, and I do remember reading about quoting style in the guidelines. I would use "response" type quoting, underneath the text being responded to whenever I find a way to actually make contextual sense out of it. In this case, I guess I decided it was less convenient. To address some other points:
LERN PROPERLY QUOTING!
"vector<int> V; copy(istream_iterator<int>(cin), istream_iterator<int>(), back_inserter(V));"
as far as I know the actual point behind "quoting" in this context is merely not to claim credit for some part of a piece of writing. As I attributed the quote to the website where it originated, I believe that purpose has been served.
Michael, it seems you do not respond to any quote as all your text is above. Why the hell to you not drop the following text?
True, but I was responding to a long string of e-mails in which no-one else seemed to get involved in. I was also trying to point out that an issue that the original poster was having was probably not related to boost.
Boost lists are for subscribers only. To subscribe you have nearly always to read http://www.boost.org/more/discussion_policy.htm (links from http://www.boost.org/more/mailing_lists.htm). Did you forget about all guidelines (which are bt obvious and also true for nearly all other lists and also newsgroups, forums, ...).
Noted. I did not really forget, as mentioned above. The minimal effective amount of quoting from the sender seemed, to me, to be the subject line.
Even if this is the first and only mailing list you ever used I wonder about this very unusual quoting style ...
Why should there only be one way to quote another's e-mail, much less to quote something from a website? I'm sorry if you didn't get the context of the discussion, but as I explained, in that particular post I was merely pointing out that the problem being discussed in the thread probably wasn't a boost issue. I didn't see any reason to quote the actual problem in the thread. As for the following
This also affects:
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 11:45 -0700, Ricardo Mayerhofer wrote:
... you got me. I was too lazy to delete it because I figured people would get what was going on there and stop reading anyway, so I wasn't really wasting anyone's time by not wasting my own. Since you like the standards, I'd like to point out one final thing: "In addition to technical skills, Boost members value collaboration, acknowledgement of the help of others, and a certain level of politeness." -- http://www.boost.org/more/discussion_policy.htm I think your use of profanity violates this rule, which I find pretty important. This is, in fact, the only e-mail list I've ever participated in. I'm a very hands on learner and I figured the fastest way to get better at using boost was to start listening in on the e-mail list. Occasionally I read something that I feel I might, humbly, be able to contribute a thought to. I apologize if it's taking me a while to get used to the exact format you're looking for, but I think you could have taken a better, less confrontational, and equally effective tack on pointing out that I need to pay more attention to it. thanks anyway, mike