Python Developers Handbook
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5206943952 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python Developers Handbook
I am somewhat nonplussed that the opportunity to buy a Python book cheaply is off limits for this NG. There have been alot of hits and as there are very few Python books listed on Ebay I presume they came from here. I'm sorry if you took offence . I am just trying to find a new home for a book that I have finally accepted that I am never going to get round to reading and as I am unemployed right now every little helps. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python Developers Handbook
Thank you. I have taken on board your input. The link is to an item on ebay entitled the Python Developers Handbook by Andre Lessa. The starting price of the auction is 5 pounds and costs 5 pounds to shipping as it weighs 1.6kg. The book was published in 2000, it's ISBN is 0672319942 RRP $44.99. It is unread and in like new condition. I am the making the post as the seller. Finally I am not making a commercial announcement as I do not sell books for a living. I am selling items from my personal library as I have not had work for quite some time. I have done my best to correct the errors you pointed out and address the issues you raised. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python Developers Handbook
I thought that posting a link that contained the word ebay and a subject title of Python Developers Handbook conveyed all the relevant information and didn't want to patronise the NG. I have had 110 hits on the item but seem to have upset 3 people. I am sorry. I don't have any other Python books to sell so it won't happen again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python Developers Handbook
If I had posted or invited the group to look at my full list of items rather than just the python book link then I could see where you are coming from. If my intention was to "spam" this NG then the complaints as they were phrased would only have served to make me more determined. Maybe we will all learn something from each other. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python Developers Handbook
> Most assuredly, what Terry sent you is *not* hate mail. It was not taken as hate mail. I think Lucas got it spot on. Thank you for the long lecture on netiquette which I didn't really need. Anybody who has read and understood the book "How to win friends and influence people" would understand what I meant (yes I do own it and no I am not selling it on ebay). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python Developers Handbook
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > wooks wrote: > > I thought that posting a link that contained the word ebay and a > > subject title of Python Developers Handbook conveyed all the relevant > > information and didn't want to patronise the NG. > > > > I have had 110 hits on the item but seem to have upset 3 people. > > This statement shows a misunderstanding of Usenet. Maybe the majority > of comp.lang.python readers agree with Terry Reedy but did not want to > clog the newsgroup with ditto messages. Your understanding of Usenet is that a post has to "appeal" (for the want of a better word) to the majority of the NG readership. Look over a hundred people took a look (and the hits are steadily going up whether despite or because of this thread). I am not going to posit either way as to whether that amounts to vindication but it does suggsest that I have not comitted the heinous crime against netiquette that some people are making out. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python Developers Handbook - Mistake done and corrected.
I am not mistaken at all and the use of hyperbole (2 billion) doesn't make your point . A post that piques the interest of even 50 people in an NG is a valid one. No doubt some people would be annoyed about a job posting of a Python vacancy... others would be interested in it... The original complainer expanded his complaint to say that I had not included sufficient information. I addressed that and apologised. For many that would have been the end of the matter. Since you want to talk about Usenet at large 1. I have made similar posts regarding books in my library to other NG's. 2. This is the only NG where anybody has complained (apart from your postage/starting price is too high). 3. This book has achieved the highest number of hits (179) than any other book I have promoted in this way. More even than a football book on the history of the Arsenal v Spurs fixture that I posted to both the Arsenal and Spurs NG (only managed 160). So the only NG that complained is the one that showed the most interest. What is far more off-topic for this NG are the posts pontificating about netiquette and usenet when really they are just whinges. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python Developers Handbook - Mistake done and corrected.
Arsenal v Spurs in baseball that translates to Red Sox v Yankees. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
