final thoughts on [Re: don't quite understand mailing list]

[Ethan Furman]

On 09/07/2018 05:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Sep 2018 07:39:33 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

>> I'm with Ethan on this one.
>>
>> There was nothing in the original posting that merited ridicule.
> 
> Then its a good thing there was nothing in the response that was ridicule.

Ridicule may not be the exact word for the contents of the first 
response, but it's close enough.

> (A mild rebuke for a mild social faux pas is not ridicule.)

Asking for help is not a social faux pas, at least not on this list.

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~Ethan~
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