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  Re: FW: help please Stuart MacKay <smackay@flagstonesoftware.com> - 2011-05-18 13:39 +0100

#5692 — Re: FW: help please

On 18/05/2011 12:47, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 21:46 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>> En Tue, 17 May 2011 16:48:29 -0300, Albert Hopkins
>> <marduk@letterboxes.org>  escribió:
>>> On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 10:18 -0600, Littlefield, Tyler wrote
>>>> Not to be pedantic or anything, and I may not be able to help
>>>> regardless, but it looks like your space key is fixed, and I don't
>>>> really care to pick through and try to play hangman with your message.
>>> I actually, at first glance, thought it was spam, ignored it, and was
>>> wondering why people were replying to it :|
>> I can't remember exactly in which release 'perfect English skills' were
>> added to Python runtime requirements, could you please refresh my memory?
> I can't speak for Tyler (I assume your message was meant for him) but as
> for myself:  I saw a glob of practically unreadable text and simply
> passed it off as spam, concluding that any well-intentioned, moderately
> intelligent human being wouldn't have intentionally posted such a
> monstrosity and actually expected an intelligent response.
>
> I'm guessing Tyler's message was to help you so that your messages don't
> continue to be ignored by people who may otherwise be of assistance.
>

Sure the English wasn't the best but there was enough information in the 
post to identify the likely source of the problem - with a little help 
from my favourite search engine - and give the guy/gal some ideas of 
where to look for a solution.

If you were required to answer the question then asking the poster to 
phrase it better is going to help solve the issue faster but for a 
mailing list like this simply ignore it.

Stuart

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