Re: python programming help

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On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:07 PM,  <rurpy@yahoo.com> wrote:
> However it does not change the fact that people here have responded
> in rather extreme way to GG posts including calling GG users "twits"
> and claiming GG posts damage their eyesight, as well as repeatedly
> denying the obvious fact that GG is much easier to use for many than
> to subscribe to a usenet provider or to a mailing list.  One frequently
> sees words like "crap", "slimy", "rubbish" etc to describe GG posts
> which is pretty intimating to people who just want some help with a
> python question using a tool they already know how to use and have
> had no complaints about in other places.

Please note though that there is a difference between describing the
users as twits and describing the posts as slimy. Suppose you write a
letter (the sort that goes on a slab of dead tree) and, instead of
placing it in an envelope and putting a stamp on it, you hand it to
the Arac News Insertion Device[1] to do the enveloping for you. He
does a reasonable job of it, but he uses cobwebs instead of paper for
the envelope. Sure, it's still readable... but your readers now have
to rub off a whole lot of cobwebs before they can read what you said.
That makes your post distasteful, without it being at all your fault -
other than choosing to use Arac's service. That's how I see Google
Groups posts. Someone's gone looking for help about Python and has
found that. It's not their fault that they don't know about
alternatives; so I point out the alternatives.

ChrisA

[1] http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/princess_ida/webop/pi_04.html
On the whole we are
Not intelligent...

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python programming help rafaellasav@gmail.com - 2013-12-08 09:59 -0800
  Re: python programming help YBM <ybmess@nooos.fr.invalid> - 2013-12-08 19:07 +0100
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      Re: python programming help YBM <ybmess@nooos.fr.invalid> - 2013-12-08 19:18 +0100
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      Re: python programming help Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2013-12-08 10:52 -0800
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          Re: python programming help Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-09 06:17 +1100
            Re: python programming help rurpy@yahoo.com - 2013-12-08 16:08 -0800
              Re: python programming help Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-09 00:27 +0000
                Re: python programming help rurpy@yahoo.com - 2013-12-08 21:07 -0800
                Re: python programming help rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-08 21:20 -0800
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                Re: python programming help Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-09 18:57 +1100
                Re: python programming help rurpy@yahoo.com - 2013-12-09 21:07 -0800
                Re: python programming help Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-09 09:34 +0000
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              Re: python programming help Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-09 14:05 +1100
                Re: python programming help rurpy@yahoo.com - 2013-12-08 21:10 -0800
                Re: python programming help Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-12-09 00:22 -0500
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                Re: python programming help rurpy@yahoo.com - 2013-12-09 21:10 -0800
                Re: python programming help Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-10 16:29 +1100
          Re: python programming help Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-08 19:21 +0000
          Re: python programming help Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-12-08 16:17 -0500
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      Re: python programming help Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2013-12-09 13:00 +1300
        Re: python programming help YBM <ybmess@nooos.fr.invalid> - 2013-12-09 02:51 +0100
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