On 1 Feb 2008, at 18:37, Steve Holden wrote: > Jeffrey Yasskin wrote: >> On Feb 1, 2008 6:43 AM, Nicko van Someren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Perhaps it has to do with the low signal to noise ratio of your >>> messages... >> >> That was a little uncalled for. Be polite. > > I don't believe it was at all impolite: It was a literal observation > of > a relevant phenomenon. Jesus's email that started this thread used > 1305 > characters to simply say > > "This will be my last email today, I don't want to waste (more of) > your > *valuable* time." > > a message of 89 characters. By anyone's standards that's a low S/N > ratio. Even without the digital signature overhead it is still 89 > characters from a total of 648 ... it's quite possible that's why his > messages are being misinterpreted.
Exactly. I by no means meant to suggest that the quality of the content was low, only that it was lost in a morass of padding which might confuse a spam filter. Sorry if my comment was misconstrued. Nicko _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com