post to yourself funny how you have a new email address On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:58 PM, <marcuslom...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 4:01:08 PM UTC-4, BartC wrote: >> On 26/03/2015 15:38, Tiglath Suriol wrote: >> >> > I did not spam anyone. I posted to an open public newsgroup. Just some >> > code, nothing offensive or even directed to anyone. Then people started >> > to get cute, and now that returned fire is a bucket a drop they complaints >> > like bitches on the rag. Not surprised, but not SPAM either. If anyone >> > pull a newsgroup into his email that's his doing, not mine. >> >> There are 100,000 different public newsgroups for a reason: they are all >> about different subjects. >> >> Your post had nothing to do with Python that I could see. > > > A polite post at last. How refreshing. > > That would be two off-topic posts I submitted. All the replies to it were > also off-topic, so it can't possibly be such a big crime. > > >> >> To post test messages, try alt.test. Otherwise the newsgroup would get >> swamped if everyone posted irrelevant random stuff. > > Say that too to the imbeciles who jumped from the woodwork and made any > swamping I may have caused much worst. > > The reaction has been far worse than my action. This stems from regular > posters of a newsgroup developing a sense of entitlement and turf, which is > purely imaginary. This is a public place and everyone has the tools to > ignore posts and posters. They just wanted to play and mock and got burned. > > >> >> BTW why /did/ you choose this newsgroup? >> > > I just needed to save some code and there was no email at hand, I use this > because it's a group I am familiar with, alt.test sounds like a better option. > > Thanks > > >> -- >> Bartc > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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