Dear David

[Blubaugh, David A.]

Steve,


I have discontinued the use of ??????  a long time ago.  Why is this
still a problem?  


David



 

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Holden [mailto:steve at holdenweb.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 10:52 AM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: Dear David

Dan Upton wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2008 8:59 PM, ajaksu <ajaksu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Feb 7, 10:05 pm, "Blubaugh, David A." <dbluba... at belcan.com>
wrote:
>>> I do not understand why people such as yourself cannot construct 
>>> anything but insults and complaints.
>> I can help with that. People asked politely a few days ago. Didn't 
>> you see it? It happens because you're not following basic etiquette 
>> and common practice for online communication. That makes your 
>> messages annoying and unpleasant, so people complain and insult in
return.
>> Things like USING CAPS AND LOTS OF PUNCTUATION SUCkS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> IT MAKES READING HARDER!!!!!!!!!!! LIKE HELL!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!1!!1!!!!!
>> one!!!!!
>>
SEE?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
?
>> ??????????????????????????????????????????
>>
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
??????????????
>> ???????????????????
>> ??????????????????? YOU DO,
>> RIGHT????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
>> ?????????????????????????????????????????????
>>
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>> ????????????????
>> ?????????????????????????????????NO??????????????????????
> 
> I don't know, I'm inclined to agree with him.  Repeatedly replying to 
> bash his use of grammar or punctuation is unnecessary.  Replying to 
> the list to mock repeatedly is doubly unnecessary.  If nothing else, 
> there comes a point where you should say "look, we tried to help him 
> with his mailing list ethics, but it's just not working" and LEAVE IT 
> ALONE.
> 
> And speaking of annoyances, changing the subject again and again is 
> kind of annoying, too.  At least this one was changing the subject 
> line to legitimately a different topic, unlike Steve's "I changed the 
> topic because it 'hurt my eyes' to look at that many consecutive 
> question marks."
> 
Hey, all *I* did was remove superfluous punctuation. I left all the
other text in the title alone. I believe I then left the thread alone
too, having no way to constructively help David with his technical
issues. I thought that was a legitimate change of subject line.

regards
  Steve
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