Neuruss wrote: > Erik Max Francis wrote: > > > I'm curious, who are "us"? > > > > The regular readers of comp.lang.python. If you don't think we haven't > > seen this a zillion times before, you're kidding yourself. > > > > If you want help on a language, ask in that language's newsgroup/mailing > > list/forum/whatever. > > > > It surprises me how often people don't ask useful questions, or > > deliberately and knowingly ask questions in the wrong places, and then > > actually _defend_ their actions after they're politely but firmly > > informed how to fix the problem. You're really not making yourself look > > any better by continuing this thread ... > > Just to finish this thread: > 1) It wasn't a blunt question. I started the post apologizing for the > (not entirely) off opic question. > 2) I wasn't politely informed. It was pretty harshly. > 3) If you mean that "us" are the zillion registered users of this > mailing list, well buddy, you know a whole lot of people! > 4) At least one of these people replied kindly and correctly to my > question within seconds. Three of four more spent several minutes > whining. > The other zilion persons who were not interested (other than the four I > mentioned above) silently and peacefully ignored the question on went > on with their happy lifes. >
FWIW I agree. If anyone didn't want to answer the question they didn't need to. Why be rude to someone asking a polite question. It's not as if there isn't much more *worse* noise on this group. Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml > À bientôt, > Neuruss -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
