[Python-Dev] Re: Re: How to lose potential users/developers (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy@udel.edu
Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:37:07 -0500

"Guido van Rossum" <guido@python.org> wrote in message news:200302071236.h17Ca4D00333@pcp02138704pcs.reston01.va.comcast.net. ..

want to be on both lists. Keeping traffic truly separated would require more policing of the list than I'd feel comfortable with. I'm already uncomfortable with the tone of the messages that are sometimes sent in reply to incidental "inappropriate" postings by first-time posters.

I have sometimes thought that py-dev would be improved by a mechanism for moderation of first-time posts. Spam would be blocked and 'inappropriate' first posts politely redirected to clp, the bug list, or the patch list with carefully prewritten messages. On the other hand, I would probably have redirected the ternary op post and missed the surprise of Guido apparently giving serious consideration to an addition.

Terry J. Reedy