Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.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 0.014 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; 'subject:language': 0.09; 'worse': 0.09; 'subject:python': 0.11; 'benjamin': 0.16; 'guys?': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'thread.': 0.16; 'younger': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'earlier': 0.21; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'subject:list': 0.28; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.32; 'getting': 0.33; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.33; 'received:org': 0.36; 'but': 0.36; 'being': 0.37; 'drop': 0.37; 'far': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'mark': 0.38; 'comment': 0.38; 'fact': 0.38; 'things': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'subject:-': 0.40; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'son': 0.60; 'ever': 0.63; 'diagnosed': 0.84; 'oscar': 0.84; 'partially': 0.84; 'tolerate': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Aggressive language on python-list Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:55:58 +0100 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> <35b41895-45d9-4f2e-9285-2bb0c36fb2a6@googlegroups.com> <507f3c6c$0$6599$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-92-24-222-223.ppp.as43234.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 121017-1, 17/10/2012), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean 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: 1350521743 news.xs4all.nl 6916 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:42810 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:31561 On 18/10/2012 01:44, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > > It came across to me as an offensive comment both to you and to people > with Asperger's that I would not tolerate generally. It is retracted > so I hold no ill will and don't want to dwell on it. In fact the very > quick retraction is a good thing to happen in relation to the many > things discussed above in this thread. > > Oscar > Can we drop this please guys? Being diagnosed earlier this year with Asperger was the best thing that ever happened to me, but being constantly reminded about my younger son who has the condition far worse than me and is partially deaf to boot is getting up my nose. -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence.