Perhaps we need a new module, PERLLIST::PARSE, that parses the incoming message and prefixes a category to the subject line so we can set up incoming mail filters to automatically dispose of 'dis'interesting messages I.E, (from some recent subject lines):
FILE::changing the permission to owner VAR::Referring to a hash ref in the main script from a used module... REGEX::split with multiple pairs of parentheses DBG::while debugging - weird dereferencing problem DBI::Perl DBI and Oracle .... and of course when PERLLIST::PARSE itself gets confused then we have: BEGINNER::[subject] with a CC: to the perl developer's list :-) (Of course another alternative would be to have users post questions using 'valid perl syntax' ONLY :-) LOL... just my 2-cents worth as a 'beginner' (Since we are all beginners "in one way or another" as Ovid so eloquently pointed out...) -Dan >-----Original Message----- >From: George Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 8:09 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Advanced Users in The Beginners List > > >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] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
