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Shashwat Anand anand.shashwat at gmail.com
Sun Feb 7 08:15:11 EST 2010 
LOL
pow(funny, sys.maxint)

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> >>> This is a short complaint on admin abuse on #python irc channel on
> >>> freenode.net.
> >>
> >> Let's see, you are complaining about getting banned from #python by
> >> CROSS-POSTING between c.l.py and comp.lang.lisp.  From my POV, that's
> >> grounds for extending the IRC ban permanently.
> >
> > It certainly doesn't inspire any confidence that Xah's next trip to
> > #python is likely to last much longer than the last.
>
> Some humanity, please! If you look at the web page of the guy it
> really strikes me as a poor bastard who deserves more pity than
> bashing. IRC, newsgroups, email, web page, etc, these are the only
> things that this guy is doing, if you take these things away from him
> I don't know what will be left for him. Yes, he is annoying, yes, he
> is trolling, but if this prevents him from jumping under the bus, then
> I'd say let him do it. How many serial trolls are there on c.l.p? Not
> many. The average troll should of course be kicked out from
> everywhere, but guys like Xah are really rare and on humanitarian
> grounds I think should be allowed to do their things. If you really
> think about it the damage is not that great.
>
> In medieval times 99% of crazy people (using a loose definition of
> crazy) were either executed or tortured and executed, however, the one
> lonely village clown or court clown was allowed to be crazy, he even
> had a decent income from the king. I'm not suggesting a stipend for
> Xah from the PSF :) but having a single c.l.p clown is tolerable if it
> makes him happy.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
>
>
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