On 2013-10-02, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > When I kill-file somebody, I tell them, and I always make it > temporary. This is not a matter of elitism, it is a matter of > responding to bad behaviour and sending a message that it is > inappropriate -- if you behave badly, I will not see your > messages. Think of it as "time out", or for sports fans, "the > sin bin". > > I expect some people have probably kill-filed me, although (to > the best of me knowledge) none of them have had the elementary > decency to tell me.
I do think there is some value in telling someone why you might killfile them. But actual *plonks* are, I think, manifestation of spotlight syndrome. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
