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From: Jason Dusek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat Nov 22, 2003 10:10:27 PM US/Central To: drieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: POD, Faq and tradition - Re: extracting email addys.
Hey People,
On Saturday, Nov 22, 2003, at 16:18 US/Pacific, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
[..]It's just that we keep seeing this over and over again. That's the point
of the FAQ. What happened to the ethic of even ATTEMPTING to look
for a local FAQ before posting to a list.
{sigh}
Maybe there is some way to get the FAQ to respond to messages on the list - that way we wouldn't need to understand 'perldoc' and so forth. We newbies could just send the thing out to the list, and everyone could ignore it in good conscience. If the FAQ didn't help us, we could always repost with a note about "BadFAQ" in the subject line.
Of course some newbies are lazy, but but most of us are really motivated by practicality. We often have no background in using the FAQ. You might write our heuristic as:
if ( work_to_figure_out_faq > work_to_figure_out_problem ) { &AskList(); } else { &AskFAQ(); }
To put it another way: if I surmise that it is easier (and faster) for me to ship the problems out to you guys than it is for me to figure out the FAQ, then most of the time that's what I'm going to do. This is somewhat despicable I suppose - but I have work to do.
And on another note, what good are gurus who refuse to help the humblest neophytes in their stumblings? Is it not the purpose of this list to assist the ignorant, the lame and even the stupid as they seek out the one true Perl? This isn't the 'true masters' list after all.
- Jason
A Zen student asked Ummon: "You know what I like to do when I get really depressed?"
Ummon replied: "No, what?"
"I like to turn on the TV and watch a really bad movie," answered the student.
"Thatıs a funny thing to want to do," said Ummon.
The student smiled and said: "I know."
-Mike Topp
