Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.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 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'python.': 0.02; 'python,': 0.02; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:language': 0.09; 'sucks': 0.09; 'thread': 0.11; 'subject:python': 0.11; '(python)': 0.16; 'capability.': 0.16; 'discussion.': 0.16; 'finney': 0.16; 'fire,': 0.16; 'high-volume': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'relevance': 0.16; 'subscribing': 0.16; 'thread.': 0.16; 'usenet': 0.16; 'discussion': 0.20; 'filtering': 0.22; 'tells': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'rest': 0.28; 'subject:list': 0.28; 'remains': 0.29; 'writes:': 0.29; 'field,': 0.30; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'list': 0.35; 'ben': 0.35; 'filter': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'anything': 0.36; 'client': 0.36; 'supporting': 0.37; 'does': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'things': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'subject:-': 0.40; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'think': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'warm': 0.62; 'day.': 0.63; 'more': 0.63; 'engage': 0.65; 'subject': 0.66; 'email,': 0.66; 'direct': 0.69; 'receive': 0.71; 'promotion,': 0.84; 'education,': 0.95 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Ben Finney Subject: Re: Aggressive language on python-list Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:33:14 +1100 References: <27cbf07c-60ac-41ac-a00f-dbe8edf45078@b9g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> <85099bc2-fa24-4cc5-bd94-3015b9af694f@googlegroups.com> <507d900e$0$6599$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5a713407-d82f-4067-8ffa-6b8b66c1edf1@googlegroups.com> <507e1baf$0$6599$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <507E2A42.1050906@teradactyl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rasputin.madmonks.org X-Public-Key-ID: 0xBD41714B X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 9CFE 12B0 791A 4267 887F 520C B7AC 2E51 BD41 714B X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-gpg.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ob5tbq2MYqCCzSFJxtOKyjeggr0= 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: 32 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1350448418 news.xs4all.nl 6864 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:36579 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:31461 "Kristen J. Webb" writes: > What the f**k! I thought that subscribing to a list would promote > education, enlightenment, and a shared communal effort to make things > better for things (python) related. Yes, that's the focus of this thread: how best to engage in a shared communal effort to make things better for Python-related discussion. > It sucks for me to spend so much time filtering this BS. The thread helpfully tells you what it's about in the subject field, and remains remarkably on-topic by that description. Filter appropriately. If it sucks for you to receive a high-volume discussion forum in your email, you may want to use a better email client with more sophisticated filtering capability. Or you can subscribe to the forum as a Usenet newsgroup, . > Let's be honest, does any of this crap have anything to do with > python, it's promotion, Yes, I think this discussion does have direct relevance to supporting the promotion of Python. My views on how have been made elsewhere in this same thread. -- \ “Teach a man to make fire, and he will be warm for a day. Set a | `\ man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.” | _o__) —John A. Hrastar | Ben Finney