On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > David, > > While I acknowledge and appreciate your efforts to be less aggressive on > this list, I think you have crossed a line by forwarding the contents of > an obviously personal email containing CLEARLY PRIVATE MATTERS to a > public list without permission, without even anonymising it. > I get that it was a in a thread, and we;'re always told to respond all, unless otherwise asked, and they didn't directly ask, so I responded back to the list like the etiquette dictates.
> Not cool mate, not cool. > > The first amendment doesn't excuse this. You don't get to shout "Fire!" > in a crowded theatre either. That's an over exaggeration of whats going on. > > I think you owe Wu Wei, and Alex, apologies. But only for thinking that it's always reply all, and I do apologize, but they should have directly requested it in the email. If you follow the discussions here, again, it's always you should 'reply all'. > > Re-adding the list to a clearly Python-related question to the list is > marginally okay. (I normally wouldn't do it, but some people do.) Adding > the list to a personal comment is not. You know damn good and well opinions flutter like butterflies around here. > > And quite frankly, I sympathise with how hard your life has been, Don't, it's made me a better person to see the very worst people in life, be kind of a bad ass, and become better at being a stable person. It made me who I'm becoming, even if who I am now is just a transitional. but > this isn't your personal support group. There is such a thing as too much > sharing. It was mainly a business image, and wanting to revise myself, which I'm doing constantly. Most here are professionals, so I asked, and in the middle of a small flame war. > > My personal advice is that I think you need to take a break for a couple > of days and then come back focused on Python, rather than on defending > yourself against real or imagined slights. I'm not your dad and I'm not > sending you to your room, but sometimes a man has to know when it's best > to just walk away and let things cool off, regardless of who is right and > who is wrong. > I'm trying, but I do like to defend myself line for line. I can cool off, but can they lay off while I'm doing it, and do the same themselves? -- Best Regards, David Hutto CEO: http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
