Terry Macdonald
terry.macdonald at dsl.pipex.com
Sat Mar 25 13:11:25 EST 2006
Graham Dumpleton wrote: > > On 25/03/2006, at 8:52 PM, Nicolas Lehuen wrote: > >> To all readers of this mailing list, >> >> Please stop answering "python eager"'s RTFMesque questions, with a >> little luck, if we don't look at him, he'll go away. >> >> Maybe I'l just the only one to find his questions and his way >> offensive, but the less I read his imperative, ill-mannered and most >> of all stupid questions, the better I feel. >> >> It's worse than spam. It's quite depressing to think that an actual >> human being prefers to take some time to annoy a lot of people (he's >> not restricting his questions to this mailing list) instead of reading >> the freely available documentation. > > Also, to anyone new to the list who thinks Nicolas is being a bit harsh, > be aware that we have tried to educate Mr Python Eager numerous times as > to the appropriate forums to post both generic questions and some of his > more specific non mod_python questions. We have also directed him a > number of times to a mailing list etiquette FAQ so he can learn better > ways of asking questions and not upset people in the process. For all > that we have done, his manner has not changed and all our pointers to > more appropriate topic specific forums has only resulted him also > spamming those other lists with generic questions nothing to do with > those mailing list. > > So as much as it feels good to help people, I share Nicolas' frustration > with this particular poster. They never express any sense of > gratification > for the help provided and seem to think that we exist only to answer > his often most basic questions which have nothing to do with mod_python > and which they would have been able to work out themselves if only they > had done some research and experimentation of their own. > > Graham > > _______________________________________________ > Mod_python mailing list > Mod_python at modpython.org > http://mailman.modpython.org/mailman/listinfo/mod_python +1
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