On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: > I suggest the following: > > 1) Don't fault newcomers for using Google Groups. Politely suggest > alternatives, but only if you are also helping them, or if they have already > gotten help. > > 2) Be careful how you rail against Google Groups. When you call its results > "crap" (for example), it can sound like an insult to the poster. You mean > to refer to Google Groups, but remember you are also referring to the > poster's words.
I'm always careful of both of these. When I post alternatives to GG, it's as part of another informative and on-topic post. If GG annoys me but I don't have anything useful to say, I just move right along. (And sometimes even if I do have something useful I could say. Sometimes it's just not worth the hassle of cleaning up someone's misformatted code so I can help them.) > 3) Don't let's get into protracted internal debates about Google Groups. It > is for the moment at least, an unavoidable part of this list. This is where I'm not so good :| ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
