On 06/10/2011 03:12 PM, Piotr Kamiński wrote: > Could you please refrain from presenting your *religious* convictions > in this list: the notions you believe in as well as the ones that you > believe are false? > > This is a *technical* list, as I understand it, solely dedicated to > the technical side of teaching the *Python* programming language and > *programming* in general. I would like to keep it this way and I > believe there are many persons or at least a number of people > constituting a minority (or, likely, a silent majority) sharing my > views in this respect. > > What is more, I am profoundly convinced that there are many other > mailing lists and/or sites on the Internet, specifically dedicated to > debating various religious, worldview and philosophical issues. >
You should have stopped here. Or, even better, just not written at all. It's the internet, does someone else's world religious really matter so much that you write a lengthy response to the whole list (which should be focused on python, as you mentioned)? > --- > > [...] > > That is my outlook on religious and ideological matters. I have > wanted it to be known, so I have mentioned it *once* (Steven provoked > my response). I do not intend to remind you repeatedly how I despise > the genocidal totalitarian Left (e.g. that starved to death *5 - 6 > million people* in Ukraine in 1932 - 1933 ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor )) or pseudo liberal leftist > denominations. If I ever feel a need for that, I can easily find a > dedicated Internet forum and express my views in this thematic scope. > I am quite sure nobody needs my repeated ideological propaganda *in > this mailing list*; let me know if I am wrong... > A wise man once said, > Could you please refrain from presenting your *religious* convictions > in this list: the notions you believe in as well as the ones that you > believe are false? Could be applied to government too. -- Corey Richardson _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor