In article <874ol65ep8....@benfinney.id.au>, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: >> In article <87sk8r5v2f....@benfinney.id.au>, >> Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >>> >>>Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it, but by its distribution >>>(to many people, e.g. via a forum like this one) and its content >>>(off-topic and unsolicited). >> >> Moreover, by your definition, your post above counts as spam. > >No. Again, as several others have pointed out, discussions about how the >forum should operate (meta-discussions, if you like) are on-topic in the >forum.
We already agreed that the original post was not appropriate for c.l.py; further discussion about the precise term for describing that post is off-topic. Therefore, by your definition, your post is spam. My point is that c.l.py is somewhat tolerant of off-topic posts, and generally people who contribute to the newsgroup are more likely to get a pass on off-topic posts. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Many customs in this life persist because they ease friction and promote productivity as a result of universal agreement, and whether they are precisely the optimal choices is much less important." --Henry Spencer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
