Re: [OT] Off-Topic Posts and Threads on the Python Mailing List

2011-10-11 Thread geremy condra
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Navkirat Singh wrote: > Lol you all sound like google's angry birds with their feathers ruffled by a > comment. You guys should open up another mailing list to extinguish your > virtually bruised egos. . . . Google does not produce Angry Birds. There is another ma

RE: [OT] Off-Topic Posts and Threads on the Python Mailing List

2011-09-30 Thread Navkirat Singh
Lol you all sound like google's angry birds with their feathers ruffled by a comment. You guys should open up another mailing list to extinguish your virtually bruised egos. . . . On Sep 30, 2011 10:27 PM, "Prasad, Ramit" wrote: -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: [OT] Off-Topic Posts and Threads on the Python Mailing List

2011-09-30 Thread Prasad, Ramit
>I didn't say it would be on-topic. But we don't cease to be well-rounded >human beings with concerns beyond the narrow world of Python programming >just because we are writing on a programming forum. Everything is on topic to programmers! To (mis)quote Sheldon Cooper: "I'm a [programmer]. I have

Re: Off-Topic Posts and Threads on the Python Mailing List

2011-09-29 Thread alex23
Chris Angelico wrote: > We may happen to have coincidental interest in (say) > music, but just because some group of us (or even all of us) all enjoy > music does not mean that it'd be on-topic to have a discussion of the > tetrachord of Mercury. As general discussion it would be, sure, but I don

Re: [OT] Off-Topic Posts and Threads on the Python Mailing List

2011-09-29 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: >> Westley Martínez wrote: >> >>> On this mailing list, we're programmers, nothing else, >> >> Speak for yourself. >> > > I don't think he meant that the populace here is exclusively > programmers, but that *on th

Re: [OT] Off-Topic Posts and Threads on the Python Mailing List

2011-09-29 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Westley Martínez wrote: > >> On this mailing list, we're programmers, nothing else, > > Speak for yourself. > I don't think he meant that the populace here is exclusively programmers, but that *on this list* we are here because we're prog

Re: [OT] Off-Topic Posts and Threads on the Python Mailing List

2011-09-29 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Westley Martínez wrote: > On this mailing list, we're programmers, nothing else, Speak for yourself. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] Off-Topic Posts and Threads on the Python Mailing List

2011-09-29 Thread Ben Finney
en internet forums long before any web application came along. > I've noticed that sometimes Off-topic posts can get a little out of > hand. I guess it's not really a big deal, but it bothers me, and the > trolls just love to feed on it. Yes, these are hazards of an unmodera

Re: [OT] Off-Topic Posts and Threads on the Python Mailing List

2011-09-29 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Westley Martínez wrote: > I'm kind of new to the whole mailing list thing, but they seem to be a > lot more lenient than internet forums about most things.  I've noticed > that sometimes Off-topic posts can get a little out of hand.  I guess

Re: [OT] Off-Topic Posts and Threads on the Python Mailing List

2011-09-29 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Westley Martínez wrote: > On this mailing list, we're programmers, > nothing else, and so we shouldn't mingle other things into the list. > Think of it as using global variables or even a goto.  That's > essentially what OT is. Not a bad analogy, that... but I acc

[OT] Off-Topic Posts and Threads on the Python Mailing List

2011-09-29 Thread Westley Martínez
I'm kind of new to the whole mailing list thing, but they seem to be a lot more lenient than internet forums about most things. I've noticed that sometimes Off-topic posts can get a little out of hand. I guess it's not really a big deal, but it bothers me, and the trolls just lov

Re: Off-Topic Posts

2007-01-29 Thread Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jan 27, 1:31 pm, Jim Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm not one of the conquered races, I'm Swiss. We are the bankers to >> the conquerers. :-) > > Exactly, Honorable J Klein, (although my reference was a general one, > you have entered the thread, so I will pic

Re: Off-Topic Posts

2007-01-29 Thread thermate
t;The final balance of power provided against the anglos will be by > >Slavs. Hurray to Vladimir Putin, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky in a Siberian > >jail. > > >On Jan 26, 2:30 pm, Jim Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Off-Topic Posts

2007-01-26 Thread thermate2
eos on that day in destruction of evidence) > > > > try to sabotage the google servers ... they are part of the crime and > > > > complicit in it. If they were competent, we would see one consistent > > > > theory coming out from that bureau to explain all significant

Re: Off-Topic Posts

2007-01-26 Thread thermate2
to expel the Jews. > > > > If you forget your status as conquered races, then you are in delusion, > > > not anyone else. > > > > The final balance of power provided against the anglos will be by > > > Slavs. Hurray to Vladimir Putin, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky in a S

Re: Off-Topic Posts

2007-01-26 Thread Carl J. Van Arsdall
>> If you forget your status as conquered races, then you are in >>> delusion, >>> not anyone else. >>> >>> The final balance of power provided against the anglos will be by >>> Slavs. Hurray to Vladimir Putin, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky in a >>>

Re: Off-Topic Posts

2007-01-26 Thread Sean Schertell
in >> delusion, >> not anyone else. >> >> The final balance of power provided against the anglos will be by >> Slavs. Hurray to Vladimir Putin, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky in a >> Siberian >> jail. >> >> On Jan 26, 1:13 pm, Richard J Kinch <[EM

Re: Off-Topic Posts

2007-01-26 Thread thermate
a Siberian > jail. > > On Jan 26, 1:13 pm, Richard J Kinch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > alex writes: > > > I have only just joined this group, but have noticed a significant rise > > > in off-topic posts that really detract from what is otherwise an >

Re: Off-Topic Posts

2007-01-26 Thread thermate
MAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have only just joined this group, but have noticed a significant rise > >in off-topic posts that really detract from what is otherwise an > >excellent place to learn and talk about optics. While I'm sure people > >who post these non-optic