Off Topic Posts

[Gene Chiaramonte]

All good points. I have several filters in place already, but many messages
still slip through.

I am suggesting that python-list be split into 2 lists. One for specific
python programming questions, and another list for python language opinions
and comments.

Anyone agree with me?

Gene

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-list-admin at python.org
> [mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Harald Hanche-Olsen
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 10:55 PM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: Off Topic Posts
>
>
> + "Gene Chiaramonte" <gchiaramonte at ibl.bm>:
>
> | Please stop the madness! I can't take it anymore.
>
> Neither can I.  Time to learn about killfiles.  You can let your
> newsreader filter out (some of) the stuff you don't want, you know.
>
> | Can the admins of this list please setup another newsgroup for posts
> | regarding python language opinions?
>
> That is not how usenet works.  There is a formal procedure for the
> creation of newsgroups:  You issue a Request for Discussion in the
> right fora, there is a discussion period, then a vote, and if the
> motion passes, the newsgroup is created.
>
> The exception is the alt.* hierarchy, where anybody can create groups
> to their heart's content.
>
> | Lets keep this list for people who need help USING PYTHON to solve
> | real problems. [...] I worry that the constantly increasing number
> | of off topic opinion type posts here has gone above a reasonable
> | threshold.
>
> Well, the problem is that discussions on the strengths and weaknesses
> of Python is very much an on-topic discussion, as long as we haven't
> split the group.  The problem with the whitespace thread is not that
> it's off-topic, but that it goes on for too long, with the same old
> arguments being repeated ad nauseam.  This kind of thing happens
> regularly on all newsgroups, though more rarely here than elsewhere.
> Learn to endure it, or better yet to filter it out.
>
> | Enough already! If it's not a Python question, don't waste your time
> | sending it in the first place.
>
> Personally, I have enjoyed many posts here comparing Python with other
> languages like Haskell, Common Lisp, Smalltalk etc.  I would hate to
> see such discussion banished from the newsgroup.
>
> yes-I-like-Lisp-too-ly y'rs,
> --
> * Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
> - "There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words
>    a wonderful obstruction to the mind."  - Francis Bacon
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