On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Dwight Hutto <dwightdhu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Steven's point is not that we, human beings (or parahuman beings, as >> the case may be), do not know how to run code in Joomla; I've worked >> with it, and know something about it, and my day job involves some PHP >> programming, so there's a reasonable chance that I could help him. > > Then a referral, is what he needs, and what you need is to tell others > you're a cross languaged programmer.
Okay. I hereby inform you all that I am polyglot. I know many languages. But really, who here _isn't_? Is there anyone on this list who has absolutely no skills outside of Python? I rather doubt it. >> (If I cared to. I don't have very much sympathy for security holes in old >> versions of big frameworks.) > > SYmpathy, how about empathy, to show your designs can have bugs, which > is why they have version. > > Then refer him to the joomla security hole mailing list How about: Google is your friend? I'm sure that a Joomla security hole mailing list can easily be found at the opposite end of a web search. > We're the borg. We have google to help, or another mailing list with data. He has Google to help, and he can access other mailing lists. Anyone who wants to admin a web site ought to be able to find appropriate places to ask questions. There's a reasonable level of courtesy and assistance offered, but eventually, it's time to just say "This is off topic" and not try to assist. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
