At 01:22 11.06.2001 -0800, you wrote:
>If the reply issue is really difficult for new users to deal with, why is it
>everyone who is complaining about it has already found a workaround?
My whole issue with the thing is that we've been forced to find a
workaround. If one of the goals of good programming is to do away with
unnecessary bullox, then shouldn't this list, as an example to beginning
programmers, be configured *better* then the other lists out there? If
none of us that know how to program decently would ever write code that
required users to find workarounds, why does the list get sent in such a
way that in order to reply to the list we have to come up with a workaround?
I agree that this thread probably isn't the most pressing issue facing the
Perl community today, but it does bring up one of my pet peeves about the
programming world, which is where the elitist issue came up. I agree with
you that there should be levels of distinction between programmers --
someone who doesn't have the knowledge to understand what's going on in a
conversation should keep their mouth shut and listen, and not clutter up
the conversation with basic questions that would be better asked
elsewhere. This isn't elitism, this is organization.
Perhaps elitism isn't even the correct word. It just seems to me that we,
being techy people, often get into a techy frame of mind, which lead us to
setting things up in a way that causes us to push more buttons, just so
that we do it differently from the rest of the world. I'm sure that's not
the situation with this list, but the reply-to conversation brought the
tech issue to mind, and perhaps that's why I joined in the fray in the
first place.
I didn't mean to write a book :)
Aaron Craig
Programming
iSoftitler.com
