Xah Lee wrote: > In a couple of posts in the past year i have crossed-posted (e.g. > recently “What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities”, “is laziness a > programer's virtue?”, “On Java's Interface (the meaning of interface > in computer programing)” ), there are a some controversy, and lots of > off-topic and careless follow ups.
Please don't dismiss so many posts as being "off-topic and careless". > I think a few things today's tech geekers should remind themselves: > > • If you deem something off-topic to “your” newsgroup, and want to > tech-geek by changing the “follow-up group”, start with yourself. > Please do not cross-post yourself, and tweak the follow-up, and > proudly proclaim that you changed the follow-up as a benign gesture. ... A few more points: - I know many geeks but not so many geekers... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=geeker - Please topquote snippets from the threads about which you are commenting. - Please set your newsreader to prepend "Re: " or somesuch when replying to a toplevel post. - Please don't preach about "meta-talk and policing" in a post which is mostly meta-talk and preaching. Thanks, Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
