On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 22:36:54 -0700, rusi wrote: > On Thursday, October 10, 2013 6:40:19 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: >> >> I have no objection to encouraging people to read the fine manual, and >> I don't intend to be Nikos' (or anyone else's) unpaid full-time help >> desk and troubleshooter. But I do think it is simply unfair to treat >> him more harshly than we would others in the same position. If *anyone >> else* asked for help on these sorts of network and browser questions, >> we'd give them more constructive pointers than just "google it". > > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2013-October/657221.html
That's a good example of exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about. Joel responded with "have you checked the pysvn mailing list" and gave a URL to that list. That is a good, helpful response, given that we can't be expected to know everything about every arbitrary package that might use Python. > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2013-October/657034.html And even this got a response suggesting the poster look for an nginx mailing list, which while less helpful than it could have been, was still a concrete, helpful response: not "RTFM", or "just google it", but "that's a problem with nginx, you need an nginx forum, not a Python one". -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list