Lew wrote: > Waylen Gumbal wrote: >> Not everyone follows language-neutral groups (such as >> comp,programming as you pointed out), so you actually reach more >> people by cross posting. This is what I don't understand - everyone >> seems to assume that by cross posting, one intends on start a >> "flamefest", when in fact most such "flamefests" are started by >> those who cannot bring themselves to skipping over the topic that >> they so dislike. > > It's not an assumption in Xah Lee's case. He spams newsgroups > irregularly with rehashed essays from years ago, and a number of > people are just tired of him.
I did not know this. One should obviously not do that. > Don't blame the victims for the perpetrator's actions, OK? I'm not blaming any "victims", but I don't see anyone saying "read this or else", so why not just skip the thread or toss the OP in your killfile so you don't see his postings. If others want to discuss his topics, who are you or I to tell them not to? -- wg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
