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2018-09-11 Thread Ethan Furman
On 09/07/2018 05:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 07 Sep 2018 07:39:33 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: I'm with Ethan on this one. There was nothing in the original posting that merited ridicule. Then its a good thing there was nothing in the response that was ridicule. Ridicule may not

Re: don't quite understand mailing list

2018-09-10 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 07:10:10PM +, VanDyk, Richard T wrote: > Greetings; > > I sent in a question on how to install robot framework on python 3.7 > using pip (or any other way). None of the commands on the >>> seem > to work for me. I was asked to update the c/c++ runtime which I > don't kn

Re: don't quite understand mailing list

2018-09-10 Thread Ethan Furman
On 09/10/2018 05:23 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 10:03 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: Actually, you did say something at the time: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list Not sure what this link is stating. Did you intend to link directly to a post? Or are you saying gene

Re: don't quite understand mailing list

2018-09-10 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 10:03 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 09/06/2018 07:40 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Ethan, you are a great contributor on many of the Python mailing lists, >> but your tone-policing is inappropriate, and your CoC banning of Rick and >> Bart back in July was an excessive and u

Re: don't quite understand mailing list

2018-09-10 Thread Ethan Furman
On 09/06/2018 07:40 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thu, 06 Sep 2018 13:06:22 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote: On 09/06/2018 12:42 PM, Reto Brunner wrote: What do you think the link, which is attached to every email you receive from the list, is for? Listinfo sounds very promising, doesn't it? And if

Re: don't quite understand mailing list

2018-09-08 Thread Michael F. Stemper
On 2018-09-07 21:23, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 00:07:36 + (UTC), Steven D'Aprano > declaimed the following: >> (A mild rebuke for a mild social faux pas is not ridicule.) > If I wanted to get snarky -- I'd suspect a /contractor/ might be > someone skilled in editing

Re: don't quite understand mailing list

2018-09-07 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 07 Sep 2018 07:39:33 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > I'm with Ethan on this one. > > There was nothing in the original posting that merited ridicule. Then its a good thing there was nothing in the response that was ridicule. (A mild rebuke for a mild social faux pas is not ridicule.) -

Re: don't quite understand mailing list

2018-09-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 07/09/18 03:40, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thu, 06 Sep 2018 13:06:22 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote: On 09/06/2018 12:42 PM, Reto Brunner wrote: What do you think the link, which is attached to every email you receive from the list, is for? Listinfo sounds very promising, doesn't it? And if you

Re: don't quite understand mailing list

2018-09-06 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
mm0fmf : > On 06/09/2018 21:06, Ethan Furman wrote: >> On 09/06/2018 12:42 PM, Reto Brunner wrote: >>> What do you think the link, which is attached to every email you >>> receive from the list, is for? Listinfo sounds very promising, >>> doesn't it? >>> >>> And if you actually go to it you'll find

Re: don't quite understand mailing list

2018-09-06 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 06 Sep 2018 13:06:22 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 09/06/2018 12:42 PM, Reto Brunner wrote: > >> What do you think the link, which is attached to every email you >> receive from the list, is for? Listinfo sounds very promising, doesn't >> it? >> >> And if you actually go to it you'll fi

Re: don't quite understand mailing list

2018-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 06 September 2018 16:44:20 mm0fmf wrote: > On 06/09/2018 21:06, Ethan Furman wrote: > > On 09/06/2018 12:42 PM, Reto Brunner wrote: > >> What do you think the link, which is attached to every email you > >> receive from the list, is for? Listinfo sounds very promising, > >> doesn't it?

Re: don't quite understand mailing list

2018-09-06 Thread Ethan Furman
On 09/06/2018 01:44 PM, mm0fmf wrote: Seriously if someone has a swanky signature advertising that they are a rocket scientist viz. "Software Contractor, Missiles and Fire Control" and yet doesn't know what a language runtime is or how mailing lists work then they are asking for that kind of r

Re: don't quite understand mailing list

2018-09-06 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 6:44 AM, mm0fmf wrote: > On 06/09/2018 21:06, Ethan Furman wrote: >> >> On 09/06/2018 12:42 PM, Reto Brunner wrote: >> >>> What do you think the link, which is attached to every email you receive >>> from the list, is for? Listinfo sounds very promising, doesn't it? >>> >>>

Re: don't quite understand mailing list

2018-09-06 Thread mm0fmf
On 06/09/2018 21:06, Ethan Furman wrote: On 09/06/2018 12:42 PM, Reto Brunner wrote: What do you think the link, which is attached to every email you receive from the list, is for? Listinfo sounds very promising, doesn't it? And if you actually go to it you'll find: "To unsubscribe from Python

Re: don't quite understand mailing list

2018-09-06 Thread Ethan Furman
On 09/06/2018 12:42 PM, Reto Brunner wrote: What do you think the link, which is attached to every email you receive from the list, is for? Listinfo sounds very promising, doesn't it? And if you actually go to it you'll find: "To unsubscribe from Python-list, get a password reminder, or change

Re: don't quite understand mailing list

2018-09-06 Thread Reto Brunner
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 07:10:10PM +, VanDyk, Richard T wrote: > Can you please take me off the mailing list or prevent questions from coming > to me. Can you advise me on my problem or point me in the right direction? > Thanks. > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list What do y

don't quite understand mailing list

2018-09-06 Thread VanDyk, Richard T
Greetings; I sent in a question on how to install robot framework on python 3.7 using pip (or any other way). None of the commands on the >>> seem to work for me. I was asked to update the c/c++ runtime which I don't know what that means. I was also asked to subscribe to the mailing list. I did