Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!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 0.095 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.81; '*S*': 0.00; 'pypi': 0.04; 'offensive': 0.09; '"import': 0.16; 'finney': 0.16; 'subject:PyPI': 0.16; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.16; 'mon,': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'part,': 0.18; 'written,': 0.18; 'jan': 0.19; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.20; 'trying': 0.21; 'so.': 0.22; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.22; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'writes:': 0.25; 'module': 0.26; 'url:mailman': 0.28; 'lee': 0.28; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.28; "he's": 0.29; 'rid': 0.29; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.29; 'pm,': 0.29; 'does': 0.32; 'point,': 0.32; 'url:listinfo': 0.32; "won't": 0.33; 'named': 0.33; 'received:209.85.160': 0.33; 'but,': 0.34; "we're": 0.34; 'rest': 0.35; 'received:209.85.160.46': 0.35; 'received:mail-pw0-f46.google.com': 0.35; 'url:python': 0.36; 'subject:with': 0.36; 'received:google.com': 0.37; 'could': 0.37; 'received:209.85': 0.38; 'url:org': 0.39; 'why': 0.39; 'received:209': 0.40; 'might': 0.40; 'packages': 0.40; 'apologize': 0.63; 'free': 0.64; '2012': 0.67; 'obligation': 0.67; 'hey,': 0.78; '"girlfriend"': 0.84; '8bit%:16': 0.84; 'dude': 0.84; 'joke': 0.84; 'jokes,': 0.84; 'nonsense.': 0.84; 'otten': 0.84; 'won': 0.97 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=FD96ERi2ReWnDEGkZ0c/b3CV8juWiUHo+v00YvVLvgs=; b=d/TnFC5oUdUIwzqah6dqHpXyOeL8fVQEzRmKpimIDIb6IUszTh5HnRh+hCxcIyIjEB +/I7ZXNtNmb+VmIsB/d6+GWsBD1ksBFMtqlmhsIcPZgLW3VSQ1iXEYuvAlQPe9IR/NIs 6YBvMGD3OyqVYIe3KEk9XOcIaOxXuEAhijG7A= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87hb0d28j8.fsf@benfinney.id.au> References: <87hb0d28j8.fsf@benfinney.id.au> From: Devin Jeanpierre Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 15:56:43 -0500 Subject: Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages To: Ben Finney Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: python-list@python.org 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: 40 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1325537848 news.xs4all.nl 6891 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:42870 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:18348 > Nonsense. Felinx is free to make sexist jokes, and others are free to > howl him down when he does so. PyPI has no obligation to be a platform > to amplify anyone's prejudice. A module named "girlfriend" won't amplify anyone's prejudice. It is, at that point, just a joke. The punchline is "import girlfriend", and the joke makes fun of geeky losers, not women. But, hey, inertia. As long as we're trying to make this dude get rid of the offensive part, might as well get rid of the rest too. Why not make him get rid of everything he's written, too? Woo, party time! -- Devin On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Ben Finney wro= te: > Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> writes: > >> Felinx Lee wrote: >> >> > I have removed those packages (girlfriend and others) from PyPI >> > forever, I apologize for that. >> >> The thought police has won :( > > Nonsense. Felinx is free to make sexist jokes, and others are free to > howl him down when he does so. PyPI has no obligation to be a platform > to amplify anyone's prejudice. > > -- > =C2=A0\ =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =E2=80=9CI have never i= mputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or | > =C2=A0`\ =C2=A0 =C2=A0anything that could be understood as anthropomorphi= c.=E2=80=9D =E2=80=94Albert | > _o__) =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Einstein, unsent= letter, 1955 | > Ben Finney > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list