> And that's a really sideways way to take a swipe at someone while > pretending to be too high-minded to do it (plus see James's comments about > other possible explanations). If you kiddies would take this fight out > into the playground perhaps the rest of the class can continue.
It wasn't meant as a swipe, it was an example of what he did turned around. There was no fight, at least on my end. What happened was I was confronted something that I didn't appreciate it, and I made it known, just as most people would if it happened face to face. > It *would* be helpful if you "just asked the question". You said in your > original post that "... I need to know the petty just because I need to > know", but that's an abuse of the word need unless you suffer from a quite > unusual psychological compulsion. I see the point to getting to the point (lol). Most people don't worry about my ramblings, and I've found that if they aren't included I get a 1-2 line answer. That 1-2 line answer, while fine for most, just WILL not help me. It actually makes it worse. I have a compulsion for knowledge that pass' far beyond what most people would call healthy. So much so that I take medications I'm not about to list here. If I attempt to learn something and don't understand it, my entire mindset is taken over by my desire. I CAN NOT sleep, eat, or function "normally" until I KNOW even the mundane. I hate using the following example, but it helps some people understand how my mind thinks. Have you ever seen a crack addict walking down the street (or on tv) and their thoroughly searching the ground for the crack that they dropped (that they never really had)? Take that and substitute crack for knowledge and you'll have me. SO now you see why I start my posts the way I do. > To you. Get over it, this is Usenet. You will experience worse if you > stick at it long enough. I've already come to this understanding just as most who frequent any type of "community" online, what with all the internet tough guys who frequent most forums. That's in no way a knock at 7stud just an observation of most troublemakers. But just because we all know its there, doesn't make it acceptable, nor does it mean anyone should have to tolerate it just because they chose to hop online. When someone makes it known a certain thing bothers them, the polite thing to do would be to stop. I bet if I TYPED IN CAPS LOCKS FOR EVERYTHING I WROTE, someone, if not everyone, would say something. Its the same idea with what I did. There are plenty of ways to stop this kind of treatment online, and if more people knew that all they had to do was make a call to thier ISP, or to the local police department with even just a pseudonym, that kind of treatment would become less acceptable. I deal with these types of reports every day at work. Fines can be impossed no matter where the harrasser is, and depending on the context can actually involve jail time. Of course this actual issue is very petty, and all that is/should be needed, was my addressing the fact that it was not polite. That should of been the end of it, and it seems to have been. Believe it or not the problem lies with the people getting harrased, not the harrasser. They believe nothing will be done and so they don't try, and then they come to accept it. How wrong they are. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list