On 2013-10-02, Ravi Sahni <ganeshsahn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> > wrote: >> Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be> writes: >>> Op 02-10-13 00:06, Ben Finney schreef:
>>> And what about the impuls control and the maturity of people who can't >>> stop answering [a nuisance], knowing they contribute to the nuisance >>> to the group? >> >> Yes, we are in firm agreement here. > > So Ben,Antoon you are saying that Nikos is a minor problem -- > spam-like -- Whereas people answering him are a bigger problem??! I think that's true. If people stopped responding to Nikos (either positively or negatively), he'd stop posting and go away. > I find this real confused!! Why they are answering then?!?! Many of them are trying to help Nikos. Others are just poking him with a stick to watch him jump [a Usenet tradition since before the Internet itself]. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I am covered with at pure vegetable oil and I am gmail.com writing a best seller! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list