On 10/17/2012 02:28 PM, Oscar Benjamin wrote:> On 17 October 2012 19:16, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:48 AM, <ru...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>On 10/16/2012 08:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>>> Except that you've made a 180- >>>> degree turn from your advice to "ignore" bad behaviour, but apparently >>>> didn't notice that *sending private emails* is not by any definition >>>> "ignoring". So apparently you don't actually agree with your own advice. >>> >>> Do you have Asberger's by any chance? Can you understand that >>> I said "ignore" in the context of public discussions in this >>> newsgroup/maillist? >> >> That's nothing to do with Asperger's. Ignoring something/someone does >> not include sending a private message. What you may be trying to say >> is that we should refrain from publicly responding to bad behaviour, >> which is not the same thing. If you want to pull a Humpty Dumpty and >> use "ignore" to mean "not respond to in public", then go ahead, I'm >> not stopping you - but do please make it clear somewhere in your post. > > I would also assume that ignoring a post means not replying on or off list.
Then I hope my reply to Chris clarified that for you as well. > Moreover, I think it's unfortunate for you to make this comment with > an irrelevant reference to Asperger's syndrome. I'll give you the > benefit of the doubt that you didn't mean it this way but the comment > is easily interpreted as being disparaging to people with Asperger's. Yes, on rereading that, I agree it was uncalled for and I retract it and apologize to any who may have been offended by it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
