<div dir="ltr">I think that replying with an almost canned response, like the one Ned proposed (<span style="font-size:12.8px">"unless you are seriously proposing a change to the language, this is not the right list.")</span>, would help discourage other list members from responding where responses aren't necessary.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-Ryan Birmingham<br></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 January 2017 at 16:58, Guido van Rossum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guido@python.org" target="_blank">guido@python.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Whether the intent was to annoy or just to provoke, the effect was dozens of messages with people falling over each other trying to engage the OP, who clearly was ignorant of most language design issues and uninterested in learning, and threw some insults in for good measure. The respondents should have known better.<span class=""><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br><div class="m_-3489466247082745388gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--Guido van Rossum (<a href="http://python.org/~guido" target="_blank">python.org/~guido</a>)</div>
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