[Python-Dev] Python-dev signal-to-noise processing question (original) (raw)

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Tue Jul 20 17:15:12 CEST 2010

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Oleg Broytman <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote: ..

I know, the task of sending answers like I've sent is quite unappreciated. I know, the meaning of my answer is rude because, in short, it's simply "Please, go away", and however I stress the "please" part it's still "go away". If I were a help seeker it'd be quite a hard blow for me to receive such an answer. Yes, I know. Still, two other alternatives are even worse. The first alternative is to not answer "using" questions at all; quite rude. The second is answer all questions and make the developers quit the list and found a new quiet one. I don't see any other alternative, do you? Of those three - which one do you prefer?

People dislike canned responses no matter how friendly and polite they sound. I believe python-dev tradition is to redirect the poster to python-list but still include at least a hint to what the answer to his or her question is. I believe this works fairly well.

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