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Brandon's priorities, to your relief

Ok, I've played the posting game until 2 am. It was a good run instead of
playing something mindless like Diablo II again. Thats said, I could have
finished "Childhood's End" instead. Tangible today was 1 more Python
type-treatment. To those of you who took my Ruby questions at face value,
and answered them perfunctorily, thanks! I got the information I wanted and
the conclusions haven't surprised me. To those who might still be game for
a little Troll Hunting, well, smooches, I missed you this time but my
killfile will still be there for you later.

Unsubscribing for now, to concentrate on marketing-python.

--
Cheers, www.3DProgrammer.com
Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA

20% of the world is real.
80% is gobbledygook we make up inside our own heads.

Jul 18 '05 #1
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Brandon J. Van Every:
type-treatment. To those of you who took my Ruby questions at face value,
and answered them perfunctorily, thanks! I got the information I wanted and the conclusions haven't surprised me.
I do not think you know the meaning of the word perfunctorily

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=perfunctorily says 1. Done routinely and with little interest or care: The operator
answered the phone with a perfunctory greeting.
2. Acting with indifference; showing little interest or care.


But I don't care any more.

You're welcome.

Andrew
da***@dalkescientific.com
Jul 18 '05 #2
Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
Ok, I've played the posting game until 2 am. It was a good run instead of
playing something mindless like Diablo II again. Thats said, I could have
finished "Childhood's End" instead. Tangible today was 1 more Python
type-treatment. To those of you who took my Ruby questions at face value,
and answered them perfunctorily, thanks! I got the information I wanted and
the conclusions haven't surprised me. To those who might still be game for
a little Troll Hunting, well, smooches, I missed you this time but my
killfile will still be there for you later.

Unsubscribing for now, to concentrate on marketing-python.
Fredrik Lundh wrote:

that's a very limited definition. I prefer this one:

"An internet troll is someone who fishes for people's confidence and,
once found, exploits it"

( from http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/troll.htm )

</F>


Interesting document that /F posted to. It's worth a quick read.

Given Brandon's history in this newsgroup, his recent messages, and his
response above, I'd have to say that he's operating at Troll level
3("Strategic") or 4("Domination").
--Paul

Jul 18 '05 #3
Paul M <pa****@speakeasy.net> writes:

[...]
Interesting document that /F posted to. It's worth a quick read.

Given Brandon's history in this newsgroup, his recent messages, and
his response above, I'd have to say that he's operating at Troll level
3("Strategic") or 4("Domination").


Without wanting to sound overly pissy, can I just point out that I
don't want to read threads about "Ruby vs Python" and the trolls
therein (which I already don't, thanks to a nicely sharpened score
file) but I also don't want to read people *talking about* silly
threads and the trolls therein, which due to rampant subject changing
keep reappearing in my news reader. Enough already!

And now if we can just shoot those responsible for sending out viruses
with "From py*********@python.org", maybe I wont be killing 70% of the
posts in the group...

Cheers,
mwh

--
SCSI is not magic. There are fundamental technical reasons why it
is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and
then. -- John Woods
Jul 18 '05 #4
[Michael Hudson]
Without wanting to sound overly pissy, can I just point out that I don't
want to read threads about "Ruby vs Python" and the trolls therein (which
I already don't, thanks to a nicely sharpened score file) but I also don't
want to read people *talking about* silly threads and the trolls therein,
which due to rampant subject changing keep reappearing in my news reader.
Enough already!
Exactly the same feelings here. Despite not much, it takes a bit more time
every week for tuning up score files so un-interesting messages get filtered
out. The noise ratio on `python-list' is progressively climbing, there is
danger that we loose some of the pleasure of reading it in the long run.
And now if we can just shoot those responsible for sending out viruses
with "From py*********@python.org", maybe I wont be killing 70% of the
posts in the group...


This might not be easy.

One of my (mostly unpublished) domain name and my own addresses are being
abused from far away sites for widely broadcasted UCE, either with `From'or
some fake initial `Received:'. Seeing my own name abused has been rampant
for years (and it happened to many maintainer-friends as well, probably
because we were known as good guys), but for relatively recently, such abuse
is becoming extremely aggressive and pretty difficult to counter-fight.

My filters have to cope with hundreds of rejects every hour for the mere
abuse of my own name. And for the abuse of my domain (forgeries seemingly
emanating from random non-existing users from that domain), the generated
rejects have been the source, on the domain MX, of several hundreds of SMTP
connection attempts, sustained at all times, night and day, for many months.
(Other people take care of our network bills, I should evaluate the impact.)
Yet, as this is all originated elsewhere, this is a bit outside our control.

And I'm nobody. I barely imagine what `python-list' might be living, for
those having to administer lists and servers. It might be frightening!
Happily some Python project, for any counter-measure system that might
demonstrate some efficiency against this! But it might be difficult...

--
François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard

Jul 18 '05 #5

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