Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!dedibox.gegeweb.org!gegeweb.eu!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!nerim.net!novso.com!news2.euro.net!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 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:file': 0.07; 'subject:How': 0.09; 'python': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'aug': 0.13; 'crosses': 0.16; 'expected,': 0.16; 'mark,': 0.16; 'message- id:@dough.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'thread.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'permission': 0.20; 'earlier': 0.21; 'posts': 0.23; "haven't": 0.23; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'record': 0.28; '+0100,': 0.29; "d'aprano": 0.29; 'dictionary': 0.29; 'occasional': 0.29; 'steven': 0.29; "we're": 0.30; 'expect': 0.31; 'file': 0.32; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.32; 'asked': 0.33; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.33; 'lists.': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'but': 0.36; 'rather': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'mark': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'high': 0.61; 'first': 0.61; 'total': 0.65; 'reply': 0.66; 'yourself': 0.77; 'chill': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:38:24 +0100 References: <5f8605fd-f2b6-4673-9c98-72c111cfd050@googlegroups.com> <1dfacec7-f101-4206-9f97-745739c62c91@y1g2000vbx.googlegroups.com> <5029bf3b$0$29978$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-78-146-14-186.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: <5029bf3b$0$29978$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 120814-0, 14/08/2012), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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: 27 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1344944430 news.xs4all.nl 6854 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:46133 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:27037 On 14/08/2012 04:00, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 01:34:46 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> When did you seek my permission to call me by my forename? > > Sheesh. It's 2012, not 1812. If you sign your posts with your full name, > you have to expect that people will call you "Mark" rather than "Mr > Lawrence" or "Lord High Mucky-Muck Grand Poohbar Lawrence" -- even if > they haven't been formally introduced. > > Mark, we're all human and the occasional snark is only to be expected, > but demanding that people ask permission to call you by your first name > in an informal forum like this crosses the line to total dickishness. > Chill out before you get yourself kill-filed into irrelevance. > > > For the record I was asked to use my full name rather than my user name on Python mailing lists. But see also my earlier reply to you on the "save dictionary to a file without brackets" thread. -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence.