On 25-Sep-06, at 8:06 AM, kirby urner wrote: > I think the discussion re VPython was worth having. Differing points > of view were clearly expressed about a matter of substance. > > Your assessment of the signal to noise ratio suggests you're > wearing ear muffs.
Hardly. It's an assessment that's been made many times, by many people, some of whom have left the list because of it. In fact the noise on this list caused at least one competing list to be started just to avoid it. It would be one thing if Kirby trolled Art, or Art trolled Kirby, and you each recognized it as that, but you both seem unable to resist responding to each others trolls. Which is too bad, because you both have valuable points of view and useful things to say, but I (and surely others) have started to filter it out because we're tired of wading through the pointless (and frequently juvenile) feuding. Now, as with any other time I've tried to step into this brawl to break it up, I'm sure I will be told off for it and soon wish I'd stayed in lurk mode. Oh well. --Dethe When all else fails, men turn to reason. --Abba Eban _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig