Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.015 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'thread': 0.14; '(regardless': 0.16; 'finney': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'trying': 0.19; 'work,': 0.20; 'seems': 0.21; 'aug': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'days,': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints- To:1': 0.27; 'tried': 0.27; "i'm": 0.30; 'work.': 0.31; '-0700,': 0.31; 'writes:': 0.31; "didn't": 0.36; 'ben': 0.38; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.38; 'fact': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'individuals': 0.74; 'fought': 0.84; 'hostile': 0.84; 'received:125': 0.84; 'universe': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Ben Finney Subject: Re: Captcha identify Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:23:51 +1000 References: <8c2e4bc2-4f46-4a68-83ed-469fe171de3a@googlegroups.com> <2320baf0-e097-4d67-97c1-dd37ca79fffb@googlegroups.com> <376a239c-77e8-4e0e-9300-847dfa8a8547@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jigong.madmonks.org X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Dh+B2IzL+bA/ZLZq4it7pHnpjT4= X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 21 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1408073053 news.xs4all.nl 2896 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:49798 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:76344 Denis McMahon writes: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 18:36:21 -0700, Wesley wrote: > > > […] > We tried polite, it didn't work, now I'm trying robustness and > profanity. The thread has been inactive for days, so it seems politeness *did* in fact work. Escalating to violent indimidating language (regardless of profanity) is unhelpful, please don't ever resort to that here. -- \ “I am the product of millions of generations of individuals who | `\ each fought against a hostile universe and won, and I aim to | _o__) maintain the tradition.” —Paul Z. Myers, 2009-09-12 | Ben Finney