To Troll or Not To Troll (aka: "as" keyword woes)

[James Stroud]

Andreas Waldenburger wrote:
> Is it me, or has c.l.p. developed a slightly harsher tone recently?
> (Haven't been following for a while.)

Yep. I can only post here for about a week or two until someone blows a 
cylinder and gets ugly because they interpreted something I said as a 
criticism of the language and took it personally by extension. Then I 
have to take a 4 month break because I'm VERY prone to 
reciprocating--nastily. I think its a symptom of the language's 
maturing, getting popular, and a minority fraction* of the language's 
most devout advocates developing an egotism that complements their 
python worship in a most unsavory way.

I wish they would instead spend their energy volunteering to moderate 
this list and culling out some of the spam.

*No names were mentioned in the making of this post.