On Jun 19, 7:45 am, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: > In article > <be292347-1011-4bb6-b8e9-a5d738827...@u10g2000vbd.googlegroups.com>, > Aaron Brady <castiro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >You are not being any help, Rhodri, in your question. > > Maybe not, but honestly, you're getting pretty close to going back in my > killfile. Although you're no longer trolling this group, I find your > writing difficult to read at best; answering questions from people like > Rhodri is about your only chance to reach people like me. Even without > the killfile, I'm skipping about 60-80% of your posts. It's a free > Usenet, of course, so you're under no obligation to pay any attention to > me, but I think you ought to consider the merits of changing your > opinion of Rhodri's questions. > > Side note: the rhetorical trick of inserting a person's name in a > statement is often intended and received as a mildly patronizing insult. > It's not at all clear to me whether that was your intent; if not, you > might want to change your writing style a bit. > -- > Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ > > "as long as we like the same operating system, things are cool." --piranha
> Side note: the rhetorical trick of inserting a person's name in a This is a welcome digression for me. I wasn't sure that my idea was being taken seriously. On a temperature scale from freezing to boiling, I took Rhodri's message to be somewhere in the single digits-- quite chilly. Maybe if it hadn't made me feel so defensive, I could've just said so. But, judging from his reply, he got the message. </killfile bait> > I find your > writing difficult to read at best; ... > I'm skipping about 60-80% of your posts. My loss. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
