On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Oleg Broytman <p...@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. _______________________________________________ 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
