"gregarican" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | On Aug 2, 12:58 pm, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: || > Sorry, I saw nothing rude in Steven's straightforward and indeed polite | > suggestion. Your post, however, .... | > | > tjr | | Maybe it's just me but the word "grovelling" just doesn't ring of | newbie friendliness. To each their own I guess.
I'll give you half a point here. I have seen enough friendly, helpful posts from Steven that I am predisposed to give a friendly interpretation, especialy when additional helpful suggestions follow. 'Stop grovelling' <send> *would* have been rude, but that is far away from what Steven posted. | Kind of like the | Smalltalk list where a few respondents are really dry. Someone will | post asking something like "Can I use Smalltalk to do X so that it | talks to Y?" One guy (without pointing to a link or offering a | snippet) just posts "Yes." I guess literally they have contributed. Or | someone calls your house and asks, "Is so-and-so there?" You just say | "Yes" and hang up on them :-) I'll take the half point back here ;-). "Yes <click>" is precisely what Steven did not do, so it was *not* 'kind of like'. He followed with a useful suggestion and example link. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
