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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:40:34 +1000
Subject: Re: Stop feeding the trolls (Was: which a is used?)
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Dwight Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> wrote:
> [ lots of screed that demonstrates that Dwight hasn't grokked the hacker culture ]

Dwight, have a read of these documents. They may help you to
understand how the python-list community operates, and perhaps more
so, why most of the regulars here think the way they do. Actually,
this may be of interest to quite a few people, so I'll post it
on-list.

http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/

ChrisA