At 00:04 31/01/2001 +0000, G.W. Haywood wrote:
>Argh. Three months ago I asked for comments on this document.
I think it's a very good document. I'd add a few things, mostly for tagged
subjects (which imho should be used for in-list disambiguation for high
traffic lists such as this one, not for anything else).
[RULES]
this is what tags your document when it is posted to the list every month
so that people that know the list well can filter it out. It will get
posted to the list every month will it not ? :)
[Q]
this is better imho than QUESTION
[VOT] or [VERY OT] or something like that
this is a great group to ask questions to, there are a lot of very
volatile, very helpful people here. mod_perl people seem to know perl
better than other perlians. Given that, it's hard to resist asking some
Perl questions that you know will probably not yield an interesting answer
on other list, even though you know that they are not truly mod_perl
questions. For instance, a customer of mine recently asked me to create
online games for his site. Those games will be running under mod_perl
(that's the only link) but my problem is that I don't know what the best
solution to implement chess, checkers, backgammon, and friends in Perl is.
It's hard to resist asking this list, because I'm pretty sure it's the only
place where I can get an answer... No this isn't a question in disguise ;)
Anyway, people regularly post about stuff that isn't hardcore mod_perl, and
a fair number of people on the list seem to be interested nevertheless. So
maybe those questions should be somehow channeled (with the downside that
having a tag for them is a bit too close to inviting them).
>I got precisely one.
You should read ftp://ftp.jubileegroup.co.uk/pub/mod_perl/admin/admin.txt
section 5.2.5:
"Sometimes you will not get a reply. Try again after a few days.
Sometimes the replies you get will be very short. Please do not worry
about that. People are very busy, that's all."
See ? It's already working....
-- robin b.
"Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not
the reason we are doing it." -- R. Feynman
