Unacceptable behavior

[Ned Batchelder]

On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 9:29:19 PM UTC-4, Jeff Schumaker wrote:
> On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 1:15:18 PM UTC-4, bream... at gmail.com wrote:
> > On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 2:54:45 PM UTC+1, Jeff Schumaker wrote:
> > > On Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 2:50:32 AM UTC-4, Ethan Furman wrote:
> > > > On 04/05/2016 01:05 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >  > | >>> from email import ID10T
> > > > 
> > > > Thomas, as has been pointed out to you in previous threads it is not 
> > > > necessary to be rude to be heard.
> > > > 
> > > > You are hereby placed in moderation for the Python List mailing list.
> > > > 
> > > > Every one else:  If you see offensive posts from Thomas on the usenet 
> > > > side, please just ignore them.  I have no desire to see his posts in 
> > > > your replies.
> > > > 
> > > > --
> > > > ~Ethan~
> > > > Python List Owners
> > > 
> > > Ethan,
> > > 
> > > As a new member of this group, I am not sure on how to report unacceptable behavior. If this is not the correct way, I apologize.
> > > 
> > > Please check the following thread:
> > > 
> > > Find the number of robots needed to walk through the rectangular grid
> > > 
> > > I believe there was some unnecessary rudeness on the part of one of the respondants to the original post
> > > 
> > > Jeff
> > 
> > I'm been through the entire thread and haven't got the faintest idea what you're talking about. Or are you in the camp that believes when someone is too bone idle to do any work for themselves, and turns up here asking for us to write all of their code for them, we should kill the fatted calf, roll out the red carpet, and then write the code?
> 
> Certainly not, but as Random832 says, you can politely say No.
> 
> I realize there is no minimum requirement for social etiquette to be a good programmer. Or a bad one, for that matter. But if the purpose of this group is to help others with Python, simple courtesy seems to be common sense.
> 
> Jeff

Jeff, you are right.  Mark's behavior has been getting more aggressive, and
less like what we encourage and hope for here.  He is not representing the
ideals of the Python community.  We are mostly helpful and nice. :)

--Ned.