On Sunday, December 15, 2013 4:21:08 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Apart from annoying the bystanders, your repeated angry and abusive > screeds aimed at JMF in particular but others as well over minor > formatting issues is more disruptive than the issues you are complaining > about. I am grateful to you for taking the time and effort to write up a > wiki page on fixing this issues, but gratitude for that will only go so > far in forgiving disruptive behaviour.
I guess you are talking about https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython As you will see https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython?action=info most of the edits there are by rurpy and the recent ones (sorry I missed putting comments) which are for a more automatic solution are by me. [No I am not asking for 'gratitude'... just sayin' and giving some context] There was this ridiculous guy Jonas https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2013-October/658671.html who responded to calls to correct the typical GG mess with more and more exceptional rudeness https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2013-October/658816.html So I thought to myself: Well this is too much! And yet while the rudeness is indefensible the technical grumble: "I'm not going to go deleting newlines" is not. Hell! Rather than making a socio-eco-politco-anthropo-marxist-feminist mess, why dont we fix a technical problem technically?? To me all this GG complaining sounds like some elderly mom-pop-uncle who weeps/coaxes/moans/pleads/grumbles/ about a fused light bulb, rather than climbing on a stool and changing the bloody thing. So, given that I am a programmer I came up (with some tips from Kushal Kumaran?) with a technical solution. If I were an ace programmer (can learn JS in a day and make useful contributions) it would have been a 0-click solution. [And if I were a super-ace, it would have been a beneficient virus, that would comb the net, discover all GG users and self-install without anyone's knowing] Since I am not ace or super-ace but only a humble programmer (like Dijkstra!) its a 2-click solution that needs installation :-; Still, GIVEN THE CONTEXT -- addressing not anyone but an already-GG user who is clueless about the nuisance he's causing -- I think this solution is easiest to all. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
