I don't post much to this list (though I follow it regularly), and don't want to start a flamewar of sorts, but one of these responses made me think twice.
Being vague and clueless about what you want to know will elicitnothing more LMGTFY.com Think twice before you bang out an email and decide to waste the time of 100s of people who will read your email. I know that a lot of people here are programmers who are very busy in their professional lives. Nevertheless, there may be a person who is throwing out a simple query, as it were. "Could we talk about the uses of Python in mobile development?' : that sort of thing. As far as I know the scope of this list (and I honestly don't profess to be an expert in that direction), I feel that such a query isn't totally inappropriate. I mean, yes, one can use Google, and look up PyS60 and other stuff, but getting feedback from someone who actually *does program phones using PyS60* right here in Bangalore is infinitely more invaluable than a comment on Stack Overflow or thereabouts. Of course, the wording of the OP is probably not what I would have used myself, but I guess in a society where we are not entirely at ease using English as our first language, nor confident enough to use our own entirely, nonconformity is to be expected, isn't it? *tl;dr* : If some people have vague responses, it could be because they are vaguely interested in the subject. Is that sufficient grounds to shoot them down? _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
