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[Corey Richardson]

On 06/10/2011 03:12 PM, Piotr Kamiński wrote:
> Could you please refrain from presenting your *religious* convictions
> in this list: the notions you believe in as well as the ones that you
> believe are false?
> 
> This is a *technical* list, as I understand it, solely dedicated to
> the technical side of teaching the *Python* programming language and 
> *programming* in general. I would like to keep it this way and I
> believe there are many persons or at least a number of people
> constituting a minority (or, likely, a silent majority) sharing my
> views in this respect.
> 
> What is more, I am profoundly convinced that there are many other
> mailing lists and/or sites on the Internet, specifically dedicated to
> debating various religious, worldview and philosophical issues.
> 

You should have stopped here. Or, even better, just not written at all.
It's the internet, does someone else's world religious really matter so
much that you write a lengthy response to the whole list (which should
be focused on python, as you mentioned)?

> ---
> 
> [...]
> 
> That is my outlook on religious and ideological matters. I have
> wanted it to be known, so I have mentioned it *once* (Steven provoked
> my response). I do not intend to remind you repeatedly how I despise
> the genocidal totalitarian Left (e.g. that starved to death *5 - 6
> million people* in Ukraine in 1932 - 1933 (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor )) or pseudo liberal leftist
> denominations. If I ever feel a need for that, I can easily find a
> dedicated Internet forum and express my views in this thematic scope.
> I am quite sure nobody needs my repeated ideological propaganda *in
> this mailing list*; let me know if I am wrong...
> 

A wise man once said,

> Could you please refrain from presenting your *religious* convictions
> in this list: the notions you believe in as well as the ones that you
> believe are false?

Could be applied to government too.
-- 
Corey Richardson