On Thursday, August 21, 2014 10:09:45 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote: > Everything You Need To Know writes:
> > It is not just one person here! To give my name when we are trying to > > be a small group would not work. > That's not how a community operates. Please post as an individual, with > a person's name, to establish your reputation and continuity. > Others can post as themselves. We don't need organisations posting as if > they were a person with one mind. Let me try to put it another way: We are a community of individuals not of corporations, even 'informal' corporations. Your entry here as an individual is welcome; as a corporation its out of place > > What would you do in my situation... > Deal with a community of individuals *as* an individual. > Deal with a discussion forum by starting *discussions* in that forum. > Consider, every time, the relevance of your message to a *discussion > forum* for the community primarily. > > Do I now have to work more hours, create my own web site as well and > > own forums for given topics and discussions. > Your work expended so far imposes no obligation on us to endure your > spam. Please engage with this community rather than seeing us as a > market for your product -- or don't engage at all. I find this excessively and unnecessarily harsh -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
