Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!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 0.006 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'subject:help': 0.08; 'advice.': 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; 'referenced': 0.09; 'repeated': 0.09; "they've": 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'language.': 0.14; 'denying': 0.16; 'mark,': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'sees': 0.16; 'subject:programming': 0.16; 'usenet': 0.16; 'subject:python': 0.16; 'ignore': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; '>>>': 0.22; 'spread': 0.22; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; 'mon,': 0.24; 'question': 0.24; 'posts': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; 'words': 0.29; "doesn't": 0.30; 'dec': 0.30; 'asked': 0.31; 'easier': 0.31; 'requests': 0.31; '>>>>': 0.31; 'apparently': 0.31; 'claiming': 0.31; 'formed': 0.31; 'responded': 0.31; 'tool': 0.35; 'etc': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'google': 0.35; 'doing': 0.36; 'throughout': 0.37; 'list.': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'fact': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'rather': 0.38; 'does': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'mailing': 0.39; 'either': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'users': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'skip:u 10': 0.60; 'above,': 0.60; 'you.': 0.62; 'email addr:yahoo.com': 0.64; 'our': 0.64; 'interest': 0.64; 'here': 0.66; 'anything.': 0.68; 'frequently': 0.68; 'nobody': 0.68; 'to,': 0.72; 'obvious': 0.74; 'calm': 0.84; 'nonsense.': 0.84; 'received:2': 0.84; 'amongst': 0.91; '2013': 0.98 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: python programming help Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 09:34:26 +0000 References: <264c1144-5d04-4ad0-aa32-f4e6770d210c@googlegroups.com> <2243d31b-f2cb-484a-b6a3-f9f265aa8fd6@googlegroups.com> <78e2bedb-edcb-47ab-a89d-b62d60611481@googlegroups.com> <95f70ade-57a5-4537-85ba-1b612812212f@googlegroups.com> <8ed4b168-7a45-4476-9078-080c43f4c1f1@googlegroups.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-2-98-207-92.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 In-Reply-To: <8ed4b168-7a45-4476-9078-080c43f4c1f1@googlegroups.com> 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: 39 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1386581689 news.xs4all.nl 2905 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:40145 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:61374 On 09/12/2013 05:07, rurpy@yahoo.com wrote: > On 12/08/2013 05:27 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> On 09/12/2013 00:08, rurpy@yahoo.com wrote: >>> On 12/08/2013 12:17 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >>>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:06 AM, wrote:>[...] >> [...] >> To the OP, please ignore the above, it's sheer, unadulterated rubbish. >> Nobody has ever been bullied into doing anything. People have however >> been asked repeatedly to either A) use the link referenced above to >> avoid sending double spaced crap here from the inferior google groups >> product or B) use an alternative technology that doesn't send double >> spaced crap. > > Mark, I appreciate your calm and reasonable requests for people > to checkout the page you gave a link to, that's why I repeated > your advice. It is also why I responded to Chris and not to you. > > 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. > Well you can ask iMath, amongst others, not to send double spaced google nonsense. They've been asked repeatedly, politely, but apparently have no consideration at all for people who have no interest in seeing this ill formed dross spread throughout web land. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence