Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!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 0.038 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.93; '*S*': 0.00; 'argument': 0.04; 'context': 0.05; 'seemed': 0.07; 'python': 0.09; 'sep': 0.09; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.10; 'subject:not': 0.11; 'transcript': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'code,': 0.18; 'junior': 0.22; "i've": 0.23; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.24; 'cc:2**1': 0.24; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.25; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header :User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'post': 0.28; 'context,': 0.29; 'high.': 0.29; 'posting': 0.35; 'subject:?': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'charset :us-ascii': 0.36; 'being': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'fact': 0.38; 'nothing': 0.38; 'several': 0.39; 'short': 0.39; 'little': 0.39; 'your': 0.60; 'most': 0.61; 'subject:, ': 0.61; 'subject:who': 0.65; 'talking': 0.66; 'lack': 0.71; 'sounds': 0.71; 'from:addr:wayne': 0.84; 'teenage': 0.84; 'subject:Who': 0.91; 'responses': 0.93 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:34:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Wayne Werner X-X-Sender: wayne@gilgamesh To: Dwight Hutto Subject: Re: Who's laughing at my responses, and who's not? In-Reply-To: References: <5bc2681o43dhv5p13v71jqodtnokbq9mko@4ax.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: python-list@python.org, Tim Roberts 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: 17 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1348709694 news.xs4all.nl 6953 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:49624 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:30265 On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Dwight Hutto wrote: > It sounds pretentious, but over the past several days, I've been > slammed on every post almost. All because of an argument over me not > posting a little context in a conversation, that seemed short and > chatty. Your being slammed has nothing to do with your lack of context, and everything to do with the fact that the way you responded to it was through ad hominem attacks, and the fact that most of your responses read like a transcript from kids I remember in junior high. It's annoying to most people - the same way pretentious teenage nitwits annoy most people who are interested in talking about Python code, and not who did what to who. -Wayne