Splitting c.l.py (was Re: python call external program (WHAT THE?!))
Ivan Van Laningham
ivanlan at callware.com
Fri Sep 17 11:30:49 EDT 1999
Hi All--
Terry Reedy wrote:
>
> Rather than splitting the group, what might be helpful are agreed-upon
> 'designators' such as WIN, W95, WNT, UNX, TK consistently placed at the
> head of subject lines when appropriate.
>
Splitting the group sucks. The community is not a paramecium; there's
no point to fission without syzygy.
It might be helpful with the WIN, W95 etc. markers, but I belong to
another mailing list in which such marking is enforced, and what it does
as far as I can tell is restrict what you think you can say to a set of
pre-ordained categories. Then somebody comes in with something that
doesn't fit in a box, so they dump the category markers, and get flamed.
So I guess I'm against that too.
<whatever-it-is-i'm-agin-it>-ly y'rs,
Ivan
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Ivan Van Laningham
Callware Technologies, Inc.
ivanlan at callware.com
ivanlan at home.com
http://www.pauahtun.org
See also:
http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html
Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70
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