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From: Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
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Subject: Re: JUST GOT HACKED
Date: 2 Oct 2013 16:05:00 GMT
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On 2013-10-02, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> When I kill-file somebody, I tell them, and I always make it
> temporary. This is not a matter of elitism, it is a matter of
> responding to bad behaviour and sending a message that it is
> inappropriate -- if you behave badly, I will not see your
> messages. Think of it as "time out", or for sports fans, "the
> sin bin".
>
> I expect some people have probably kill-filed me, although (to
> the best of me knowledge) none of them have had the elementary
> decency to tell me.

I do think there is some value in telling someone why you might
killfile them. But actual *plonks* are, I think, manifestation of
spotlight syndrome.

-- 
Neil Cerutti