[Python-Dev] Python-dev signal-to-noise processing question

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Oleg Broytman <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote:
..
>   I know, the task of sending answers like I've sent is quite
> unappreciated. I know, the meaning of my answer is rude because, in short,
> it's simply "Please, go away", and however I stress the "please" part it's
> still "go away". If I were a help seeker it'd be quite a hard blow for me
> to receive such an answer. Yes, I know.
>   Still, two other alternatives are even worse. The first alternative is
> to not answer "using" questions at all; quite rude. The second is answer
> all questions and make the developers quit the list and found a new quiet
> one.
>   I don't see any other alternative, do you? Of those three - which one
> do you prefer?

People dislike canned responses no matter how friendly and polite they
sound.   I believe python-dev tradition is to redirect the poster to
python-list but still include at least a hint to what the answer to
his or her question is.   I believe this works fairly well.