On 7/20/2010 6:59 AM, Oleg Broytman wrote:
I know, the task of sending answers like I've sent is quite
unappreciated.
*I* appreciate it. I mostly do not respond to such because I expect you
or Aahz will.
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.
1. I suggested one improvement to the canned response in my previous
post: expand 'using' to 'using or understanding'.
2. Here is another: mention that Python developers who are willing to
answer non-development questions already participate on
python-list/gmane.comp.python.general to answer such questions there.
3. That brings up: also mention gmane.comp.python.general, for those
like me who prefer the newsgroup interface.
4. Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
"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 you *did* do that, but it was easily missed. So: end the
boilerplate with
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and put hints here so they stand out.
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 brought up that same possibility.
I don't see any other alternative, do you? Of those three - which one
do you prefer?
The original question was about using python, that's my understanding.
I agree that it appeared to be, but it was phrased in terms of
understanding its operation, hence the claim that it was not, and hence
suggestion 1) above.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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