: On 18 October 2012 02:19, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I understood that your original post started after Etienne's outburst > against Steven.
Ah, I see. It was intended as a general request for politeness, but yes, IIRC that was the exchange that prompted it. > IOW the robustness principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle > is as good for human networking as for computers. Never thought of it as applying to humans ... that's rather good. Not universally applicable, but then neither is it for computers. -[]z. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list