On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 1:09:42 PM UTC-5, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 20/11/2013 17:51, Ned Batchelder wrote: > > On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 12:37:31 PM UTC-5, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> On 20/11/2013 17:12, Ned Batchelder wrote: > >>> On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:29:54 AM UTC-5, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >>>> On 20/11/2013 15:34, Alister wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:14:12 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Alister <alister.w...@ntlworld.com> > >>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>>> must be a strange quirk of pan & turned off hide to system tray & > >>>>>>> allow > >>>>>>> multiple instances. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Hmm. Hard to know, but I can imagine that having multiple instances > >>>>>> MIGHT cause a problem. But if that's confirmed (maybe fire up three > >>>>>> copies and then post to a test newsgroup??), I'd be reporting that as a > >>>>>> bug in Pan. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> ChrisA > >>>>> > >>>>> As a quick test lets see how may times this one arrives > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> Three. You're not Greek are you, and using a typical shabby Nazi trick > >>>> to hide behind an ntlworld email address in order to spam us? :) > >>>> > >>>> Mark Lawrence > >>> > >>> Nazi? Perhaps we could stick to more appropriate analogies? > >>> > >>> --Ned. > >>> > >> > >> It's an excellent analogy that I've used before, hence the smiley. > >> Clearly you don't do any research before bothering to say anything. > >> > >> Mark Lawrence > > > > You think these two things make an excellent analogy? 1) a newsgroup > > mishap being actively investigated, and 2) calculated genocide. It is not > > an excellent analogy, it's wildly disproportionate. > > > > Using a smiley doesn't fix it, and using it previously doesn't give you a > > free pass. What research was I supposed to have done? Examine your > > previous posts to see you overreacting before? That would hardly have > > convinced me that this was OK. > > > > --Ned. > > > > I suggest that you write to the BBC and get all episodes of the > extremely popular *COMEDY* "Dad's Army" withdrawn as "typical shabby > Nazi trick" was one of Captain Mainwearing's main lines.
I see what you are getting at. You were referring to a TV show popular in your part of the world 30 years ago. As this is a world-wide group, you might understand that I didn't get the reference, and perhaps many others did not either. Humor is tricky, you need to know your audience. > And if I want > to overreact, I'll overreact, as I couldn't care two hoots whether I'm > dealing with an arsehole from the Python Software Foundation or one > who's not. I have no idea why you feel the need to insult me. As to the PSF, this is relevant: http://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct. "Members of the community are respectful." Could you please be? --Ned. > > Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list