Simon Wistow said:
> Where would we be if we'd not bothered writing some Matt's Scripts > replacments on the assumption that nobody would pick them up. Or > written an extensible MLM in Perl on the assumption that despite having > whinged about it for ages nobody would actually care. Oooh, did I miss something? Has someone (plural?) written (present tense?) a new MLM. I have an idea that came to me in the shower one morning, but you probably didn't want to know that. Some of the mailing lists I'm on break threading by not passing through the appropriate headers. I had considered writing something to go through my mailboxes and attenpt to put the threading back, based on subjects, dates and content. It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to get most of the way there. Then I thought about the mailing lists that do keep threading, but some of the mail clients people use to send to the list don't. Maybe the mailing list software could attempt to restore the threading. Then I wondered what the world would be like if Microsoft had closed its doors in the early eighties. How much time would have been saved by people not staring at a BSOD, waiting for a reboot and then typing in their XL figures again, or playing solitaire? And would they have done anything useful with it? Would the world of computng have advanced further, or might Microsoft have been replaced with something even worse? Then I thought I really should go to work ... -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
