On 7/16/07, kirby urner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yet I got fan mail as well. > > I trust others on this list to give Sven the sound sober advice > he's looking for. I specialize in various brands of polemics -- > not to the exclusion of technical content though.
But do polemics have a place on a list dedicated to promoting *Python* in education? The list name is meant to be [email protected], not mere edu-sig -- it's not about education(al politics) in general. I am seeing signals that there's been too much politics and not enough Python or education on this list. While discussion of educational politics is a worthy cause, I want to present a strawman that excludes its discussion on this list. I have seem more than one mailing list go up in flames over education politics -- understandably a touchy issue so perhaps best discussed elsewhere. I have also seen lists saved by a strict rule forbidding such destructive topics (enforced by a moderator reminding posters and readers of this rule when the topic is accidentally brought up again). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
