Paul Boddie wrote: > Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: >> D H wrote: >> > I would recommend emailing the author of a library when you have a >> > question about that library. You should know that yourself as well. >> >> Well, if I had e.g. a question about Boo, I would of course first ask >> here because I know the expert writes here. > > Regardless of anyone's alleged connection with Boo or newsgroup > participation level
Which was sort of an ironic <wink> from my side. I did not expect "D H" to go overboard on this. > the advice to contact the package author/maintainer is sound. Correct. But if the post is already in the newsgroup and the author is known to write there extensively, it sounds ridiculous to say "contact the author". > It happens every now and again that people > post questions to comp.lang.python about fairly specific issues or > packages that would be best sent to mailing lists or other resources > devoted to such topics. It's far better to get a high quality opinion > from a small group of people than a lower quality opinion from a larger > group or a delayed response from the maintainer because he/she doesn't > happen to be spending time sifting through flame wars amidst large > volumes of relatively uninteresting/irrelevant messages. Hey, the flame war stopped before it got interesting ;) Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
