Sorry, I regret my reaction. Jean-jeanot
AlbaClause a écrit : > jean-jeanot wrote: > > > Dear Sybrel, > > > > I am delighted to know that you have been enlighted through my > > question. > > I am aware of my stupidity and I would say of my ignorance.If all > > Python users were not ignorant I suppose the Python group would be > > superfluous. I would suggest that if if you think that a question is > > supid please do not answer it.In French we say: "There is no stupid > > question but answers can be stupid". For the citation of Zappa I am > > convinced that when Zappa is speaking of world stupidity he is thinking > > to stupidity and wickedness of mankind and not to ignorance. > > Ummm, he did not say that your question was stupid. The Zappa quote is > included as part of what we refer to as a 'signature'. In the case of > Sybren Stuvel's posts to this newsgroup, the Frank Zappa quote is included > in every message that he posts. Not just messages that he posts to you. > > Secondly, I notice that when you quoted Sybren's message in your reply, your > newsreader attributed the quoted text with: "Sybren Stuvel a écrit :" > Likewise, when Sybren replied to your message, his newsreader attributed > the quoted text with, "jean-jeanot enlightened us with:" > > Do you see what I mean? You didn't write "Sybren Stuvel a écrit" because > Sybren was french, did you? Of course, not! Your mail/news application > included that attribution by default. By the same token, Sybren's > mail/news application defaulted to this attribution: 'jean-jeanot > enlightened us with:" > > When reading people's responses to your queries, stick to the material that > they actually "write" at the time of the response. Ignore the stuff that > they entered while configuring their respective news/mail reader. Little > items like message signatures and quote attributions are, at best, > reflective of the personality and/or philosophy of the author, and say > nothing of the person receiving the message. :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
