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Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Jan 24 18:40:05 CET 2014 
On 24/01/2014 17:19, Ram Rachum wrote:
> Hmm, on one hand I understand the need for the separation between
> python-dev and python-list, but on the other hand I don't think
> python-list is a good place to discuss Python, the language.
>
> I now looked at the 17 most recent python-list threads. Out of them:
>
>   - 58% are about third-party packages.
>   - 17% are off-topic (not even programming related)
>   - 11% are 2-vs-3 discussions
>   - 5% are job offers.
>   - 5% (which is just one thread out of 17) is about Python the language.
>


I'm extremely impressed by your knowledge of statistics, it must have 
taken you many man years of effort to analyse all 17 threads in such detail.

> So can you understand why someone would be reluctant to start a
> discussion in python-list about Python the language there? Especially if
> this is the same place where beginners might ask newbies questions about
> Python? (So not only are actual Python questions just 5% of the content,
> non-newbie questions are just a subset of that 5%.)
>
> it's full of people asking about third-party Python packages, or asking
> newbie questions.
>

How terrible, fancy having the audacity to ask about third party 
packages or newbie questions on the *MAIN* Python mailing list.  There's 
yet another reason to bring back the death penalty in the UK.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence
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