[Zope] A Modest Proposal

[Jay R. Ashworth]

Ahem.

I'm reading this list, trying to assemble a zen of Zope for myself, so
that when I start digging into it seriously here next month, I'll have
a semblence of a clue.

There's lots of traffic; this is good.

But there's a problem.

Check this out: 

On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 09:14:25AM +0100, Alex.Thomas@dresdnerkb.com wrote:
> Access Control List, I imagine (why not user_acl tho'? hmmmm)
> 
> alex
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Wilson [mailto:wilson@chemsun.chem.umn.edu]
> > Sent: 24 September 1999 04:15
> > To: Zope Listserv
> > Subject: [Zope] what's acl_users mean?
> > 
> > 
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > I'm usually quite good with acronyms, but I can't figure out what the
> > "acl" means in "acl_users." Anyone care to enlighten me?
> > 
> > -Tim
> > 
> > --
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> > 
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<rant>
Now, I'm not picking on Alex specifically, here, but PLEASE, people,
could we 1) clip our responses to _exactly_ what we're commenting on
and not the 20KB of other crap that was in the message, and 2) maybe,
use paragraph breaks.  Good English usage is _not_ optional, "just
because it's only the Net".

It is _painful_ (and I mean this literally, I'm getting a headache), to
read some of this stuff.  I don't want to drop this list -- but it
generates as much traffic a day as _every other list I'm on, combined_,
and that's like _7_ other mailing lists.

And I'm sure I'm not alone.

Let's all take the necessary 30 seconds to practive good mailing list
hygiene, could we?
</rant>

Cheers,
-- jra
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