On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 03:13:12AM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-12-01, Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 06:20:00PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> The main Python mailing list gets regular posts from Google Groups. > >> Those posts are always malformatted (the formatting seems to change > >> over the years, but it never actually gets better). The ones that > >> aren't just spam are always very badly written and rarely contain > >> enough information to even guess what the poster is asking, let alone > >> formulate a useful answer. Attempts to pry useful information from > >> the poster usually prove fruitless. > > > > That is explained by the fact that Python is also used on the Windows > > platform. > > Not only that, it's used by people who have absolutely no techinical > background.
Not sure what these comments are meant to prove... Both are also true of C, C++, Java, Perl, and... Mutt. Yes, I fully realize that mutt favors use by the technically inclined, but we have had posts in the past from people who've admitted they were not. It's rare but it happens. And I've run into such people on other lists also. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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