On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote: > One way is take reports like John's seriously and receive them > with thanks, instead of attacking the messenger.
If a messenger wants to be thanked, he should start by not attacking the recipients. Respect goes both ways. Make your post with a hostile attitude of "Python 3 is the cause of all my problems", and you'll find hostility coming back at you. One of my sisters keeps on doing this to me. Not with Python, but with computers generally. She complains that computers never work properly for her, and she's hostile to *the machine* even before she starts doing anything. Well, no wonder the computer gets angry with you, and refuses to work! Of course, the moment I come along, the computer sits up and takes notice, because he respects my authority (as the network admin for the house, I'm in command of all computers, to at least some extent - and they know that), but she still complains loudly. It does tend to make the assistance somewhat more caustic in delivery. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
