Good point, Ovid. Consider too that if one excludes the experienced programmer, many questions will go unanswered or may be answered incompletely or incorrectly. The coders with the experience have seen most of it and know quite a few tricks.
They are an invaluable resource. I wouldn't want them to go away. Yasen, you might want to consider changing your subscription to the digest form if large quantities of messages are a problem. George Ovid wrote: > --- Yasen Petrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I think there's too many andvanced users here who ask DBI questions. I can't > > understand anything. Perl.beginners and perl.beginners.cgi are both too > > overloaded. Noone can read 80 massages a day, in it? I mean perl.beginners. > > There should be perl.intermediate as well as perl.advanced. As for the DBI > > questions, they have to be set in the DBI list. > > Yasen, > > I've heard this before and I can assure you that many people sympathize with you. > > However, how do you define "advanced"? > > If someone is just learning object-oriented Perl, are they a beginner? I suppose >that depends > upon who is answering the question. Also, people who are comfortable with Perl yet >have never > used DBI will also see this as an appropriate resource. Yet people who barely know >Perl and have > to start using a database because their job requires it will definitely want to ask >DBI questions > here. I vie many of those questions as "beginner". As to whether or not they >should be relagated > to the DBI lists, I'll leave that one to the list moderators :) > > As for myself, I simply delete most of the messages in this folder unless they have >a subject line > that catches my eye. I receive too much email to try and read them all; there's not >much else > that can be done. > > As a final note, I'll add my personal definition of Utopia: a place someone is >guaranteed to > hate. In short, concensus will not be had on this issue, so compromise is the way >to go. > > Cheers, > Curtis "Ovid" Poe > > ===== > "Ovid" on http://www.perlmonks.org/ > Someone asked me how to count to 10 in Perl: > push@A,$_ for reverse q.e...q.n.;for(@A){$_=unpack(q|c|,$_);@a=split//; > shift@a;shift@a if $a[$[]eq$[;$_=join q||,@a};print $_,$/for reverse @A > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
