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From: James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 16:52:42 -0500
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On 3/3/25 13:29, geodandw wrote:
> On 3/3/25 11:39, James Kuyper wrote:
>> On 3/3/25 11:24, geodandw wrote:
>>> On 3/3/25 10:22, James Kuyper wrote:
>>>> On 03/03/2025 08:13, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
>> ...
>>>>>   That sounds like a C issue to me.
>>>>
>>>> If it were a C problem, then the C source code that produced the problem
>>>> should have been shown. It's hard to debug code that you can't see.
>>> Why is this group so intolerant?
>>
>> Because what you call intolerance, we call topicality. When you post a
>> message to a group where it is on-topic, the message gets seen and
>> responded to by people who are more likely to understand and be
>> interested in the contents of the message, and can give you better
>> answers to any questions you have. When you post to the wrong group,
>> they will be less interested in the message and less capable of giving
>> good answers to it.
>> However, if you're not interested in getting good answers to your
>> questions, and it doesn't bother you that your messages are going to
>> people not interested in the topic of your message, by all means post to
>> any group you choose. This isn't a moderated group - no one can stop you
>> from posting here.
> Even if it is topicality, whey people rude and insulting to others in 
> this group?

I don't know. I've got most of the rudest people killfiled, so I'm not
exposed to them very much except when someone responds to them. I've
little insight into why they behave the way that they do.

However, the context of your comment suggests that you may consider
something that I said to be rude or insulting. Is that correct? If so,
could you identify what that was? I can assure you that nothing I wrote
in this thread was meant to be rude or insulting.

I'm afraid that I can't make a more general statement to that effect - I
 believe that rudeness is sometimes an appropriate way to inform someone
that they've stepped over the line into unacceptable behavior. "You cut
into the line in front of me!" might be considered rude, but it is also
an appropriate response, if true. Similarly, accusing someone of lying
might be considered insulting, but if they were indeed lying, the insult
is earned.