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[Roger Erens <roger.erens@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Diego,

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 02:27, Diego Manhães Pinheiro <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> It's a lot of pain receive e-mails with traceback and python code. Next
> time, please paste the traceback into a external resource such as
> http://pastebin.com or http://paste.pocoo.org/ and paste the url.
> Thanks

I'm not sure I agree with you. Is it hurting you because you use a
mobile device with limited screen estate?

What if some time later somebody else experiences the same error? The
e-mails are archived, pastebins aren't (AFAIK). Then Google may help
that person to find the same problem report, and hopefully in the rest
of the thread of e-mails a solution. That's not possible when the
tracebacks are not archived. So whereas a Google search is possible
24x7 resulting instantly in leads, asking a question on the mailing
list about his error situation means that he has to hope for someone
knowledgable in the community to pick up the question and answer it.
After all, it's open source :-)

Maybe a way out to satisfy all is to post the full traceback on
pastebin et al., and only the last few lines in the accompanying
e-mail?

Cheers,

Roger