I am not mistaken at all and the use of hyperbole (2 billion!!!!) doesn't make your point .
A post that piques the interest of even 50 people in an NG is a valid one. No doubt some people would be annoyed about a job posting of a Python vacancy... others would be interested in it... The original complainer expanded his complaint to say that I had not included sufficient information. I addressed that and apologised. For many that would have been the end of the matter. Since you want to talk about Usenet at large 1. I have made similar posts regarding books in my library to other NG's. 2. This is the only NG where anybody has complained (apart from your postage/starting price is too high). 3. This book has achieved the highest number of hits (179) than any other book I have promoted in this way. More even than a football book on the history of the Arsenal v Spurs fixture that I posted to both the Arsenal and Spurs NG (only managed 160). So the only NG that complained is the one that showed the most interest. What is far more off-topic for this NG are the posts pontificating about netiquette and usenet when really they are just whinges. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
