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On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> To summarize, it once again shows that you haven't got the faintest idea
> what you're talking about.  You're now in a very exclusive club with the RUE
> and Nick the Greek, the world's leading webmaster.

Eh. Ranting Rick and Mark Janssen / Zipher / TheDoctor / whatever name
he's using now belong in that club, but Nikos was just incompetent,
not a crackpot.

BartC on the other hand is just complaining about an aspect of Python
that is legitimately controversial.