On Sep 7, 5:45 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:34:55 +1000, James Mills wrote: > > Hi, > > > This is the strangest post I've seen > > since I've joined this list (only > > recently). What the ? > > Oh don't mind castironpi, many people think he's an IRC bot with some > experimental AI features that escaped onto Usenet *grins*. If you think > that post of his was strange, you haven't seen anything yet. Many people > have kill-filed him, and never even see his posts. > > A word to castironpi: you just suggested you will pester the list to get > a response. It's behaviour like that which gets you kill-filed. If you > would spend one tenth of the effort that you spend on understand Python > on understanding human psychology, you will probably get on with others > much better and find fewer people claiming you're a bot. > > Even if you yourself don't understand how others behave and expect you to > behave, think of it as an intellectual puzzle: how can I fool the strange > hairless apes into accepting me into their herd? > > -- > Steven
First, gauge their persistence tolerance. Some people are not persistent enough. I don't want to annoy you, and I want to show interest, but of course no more than I actually feel. Are my standards too low, or too high? Second, debate the reverse psychology tack. Claim I'm a bot to shake their belief? Or call them bots? Perhaps they are. Bots with cooties. Yes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
