[New subject line] In response to my response to a trollish posting...
> There isn't any doubt that these 'tutorials' are generally unwelcome and > unhelpful. Numerous people have kindly taken the time to flag some of the > problems. So much so that any competent google of the archives would > quickly reveal the group consensus on their instructional merit. Yes, having advised many people to use Google, I thought it appropriate to flag one particular section that I thought dangerous. > I submit that continued corrections and advice of this sort are > counter-productive. I agree that 'correcting' Xah's writing is useless, and so I refrained. If asked 'What's wrong with the part you flagged?', I would stick with my original advice: "Ignore it". > Could we try to ignore them in the hopes that without the light of > attention they will wither, meanwhile trusting the many extant reviews > and google to do their work? I only read that particular post because it lacked the [Perl-Python] flag and because I was interested in the subject. Sure, now that I have added my one and presumably only review, let's everyone stop ;-) > (In case it isn't obvious: none of this is intended as a criticism of > Terry or any of the others who have been 'fighting the good fight'; I > just think a change of strategy might be in order.) No offense taken. My personal strategy is to read only as much of trollish threads as I find interesting or somehow instructive, almost never respond, and then ignore the rest. I also mostly ignore discussions about such threads. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
