Joe Fineman <[email protected]> writes: > Richard Riley <[email protected]> writes: > >> Joe Fineman <[email protected]> writes: > >>> I think I could wander around in those results quite a while before >>> I found anything both intelligible and useful. >> >> If that's what find, then who am I to argue. Personally, though I >> tend to find with gnu/open source that there are always hosts of >> people there to help and so I find recommending home brew over >> established, documented and supported methods somewhat odd. > > Yes, it is somewhat odd. I have a mysterious intellectual deficiency > that a friend of mine has called "mind blindness". Time and time > again, I have posted a query on a Gnu-related newsgroup, taking care > to phrase the questions so as to reveal the precise extent of my > ignorance. Invariably, I receive one or more prompt, cheerful > replies, containing something I don't understand. My followup > questions usually discourage further attempts to help me or to be > helped. > >> Also in the context of the user asking for "easy" solutions, I cant >> help but think the built in Gnus way is easier than a one off hack >> which is dedicated to a single person. > > That depends. It may be hard to find out what the Gnus way is, and it > is easy to copy somebody else's code if it happens to do exactly what > you want it to do. I have done that often. > >> Ah yes, I use posting styles > > -- whatever they are -- >
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