On Monday, March 30, 2015 at 8:37:13 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Paul Rubin 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.
John : Messenger Paul : ?? Paul is asking for John (et al) to be thanked [And +1 from me on that] On a more serious note you can (and IMHO should) orthogonalize: 1. John I dont appreciate your tone 2. John thank your for the bug-report > > 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. heh dont I know! I send my mom a file and occasionally she complains: "Why do you spell your file-names funny?" Wedontwritesentenceslikethisdowe? More often she just quietly corrects this stupid boy's spelling. [Unix is one habit that dies hard...] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
