On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote: >> Also, how will other people learn that they should put some effort >> into their questions? If people are only ever corrected privately, >> nobody will learn from anyone else. Orders of magnitude more people >> will read this than just the OP, > > I didn't complain about his respons being public.
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#not_losing Sometimes, things are better said than not-said. In fact, that's *often* true. Maybe it's unpleasant for the person the jab is aimed at; maybe it feels awkward for you, as an onlooker. But for the good of python-list, Nikos has to be told that putting minimal effort into his questions is a bad thing, and if you're going to say that, may as well say it in a funny way. Plus, Steven was making a solid point, too. So if you want Nikos to be ignored by anyone who can't be completely "friendly", what you'll end up with is materially less content on the list. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list