[Boost-users] Mailing list etiquettes (Was: Re: Copy from stream to vector)

From: Jens Seidel (jensseidel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-31 05:59:37

Hi

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 06:46:47PM -0600, Michael Linck wrote:
> You might be using the wrong copy.  From the STL documentation it looks
> like std::copy might do exactly what you want:

this mail is not only related to Michael but also other users of this
list:

LERN PROPERLY QUOTING!

> "vector<int> V;
> copy(istream_iterator<int>(cin), istream_iterator<int>(),
>      back_inserter(V));"
> 
> from: http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/istream_iterator.html

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?

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, ...).

Even if this is the first and only mailing list you ever used I wonder
about this very unusual quoting style ...

This also affects:

> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 11:45 -0700, Ricardo Mayerhofer wrote:

and

> > Michael Linck escreveu:

Very funny:

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Ah, thanks for providing this information! It is really so important that
it never should be removed from a quoted mail, right? NO!

Shame on you!

Jens