[Python-ideas] Explanation on how to search the archives

[anatoly techtonik]

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>
> Teaching people how to search the Internet and
> interact with mailing lists without being annoying is not the job of the
> Python devs

Aren't they primarily Python devs who are annoyed and complain that
people don't search properly?

I don't think your proposal to just write somewhere on the Internet,
but not on python.org helps. Even wiki.python.org doesn't help if
people don't have a chance to read it before posting. The idea about
giving a convenient search tool is pretty valid. The true problem is
that *.python.org is unable to do anything (not even a search form
here - http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas). For
usenet there were auto announcements, for Google Groups and forums
there are sticky threads with advices.
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anatoly t.