Mark,

2017-05-08 9:34 GMT+02:00 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>:

> Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> writes:
> > So here's the package
> > http://paste.lisp.org/display/345871
> >
> > What is wrong with it ?
>
> Please always include the relevant code snippets in the email itself,
> rather than using a paste site.  Paste sites are useful for contexts
> such as IRC where pasting more than a few lines is inconvenient and
> generally frowned upon, and where the discussions are ephemeral.
>
> On the other hand, these email lists are archived and we would like the
> archives to be comprehensible to future readers.  That will not be
> possible for the emails in this thread after the code under discussion
> has been deleted from the paste site, or the paste site goes offline.
>
> There are also privacy implications to forcing the readers of your email
> to click on a link, thus creating network traffic and a log on someone's
> server, in order to see the core content of your message.
>
> What do you think?
>

I'm ready to adhere to any guidelines set set by the community

I have no problem in pasting pieces of code directly in the emails body

I just hadn't considered the concerns you are raising

In fact, I'd paste code even on IRC channels, I don't do so because I have
been requested to abstain from pasting code in chat channels in the past

But I don't understand the reason why that is not desirable, inconvenient
and frown upon.

I just adhere to a costme that seems to be common and widely accepted, or
even assumed.

I can do te same for mailing lists of course. I just thought the set of
assumptions was the same

So I will follow your lead in the future, I have begun already !

In this same thread I reported errors and pieces of code pasting the wole
thing in the email body

It's even more practical, like this !