I personally think that there was a bit of an over-reaction to Svenssons emails. Most of them are funny, and a lot of the questions do only need a quick search of the manual.
As to the list of emails that someone found irritating and pointless, the coffee one was, I think, pretty funny in a world that can be far too serious. Is there anything wrong with escapism?... Oh, and here's the ultimate solution for anyone pissed off with messages they don't want, (I seem to remember getting narked at someone (i don't recall who) who had a full mailbox and any replies to would bounce to the php list)... This is also a newsgroup. news.php.net is the server. Ross -----Original Message----- From: Mr Adam ALLEN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 December 2001 15:11 To: Svensson, B.A.T. (HKG) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Mathimatical equations in PHP This is a mailing list isn't it, where there is a certain amount of email to be expected, I've not checked if there is a PHP-MATHS mailing-list, I suspect not - questions need to be asked somewhere, if we don't like them- ignore them then they will go away.. I have a key on my keyboard with the letters DEL on, I've assumed it means delete, when I see a message I don't have any interest in I use that DEL key, and it gets rid of the message... ... Sometimes I forget to use that DEL key, and just leave them in the inbox, and when I'm been particulary clever I will even remember the subject of those messages I'm not interested in and automatically skip over them.... granted there it takes a second or so for the e-mail to download but If I was REALLY petty enough to argue about bandwidth consumed by a mailing list I could un-subscribe (hango I can't find a button marked UNS on my keyboard.) Like you say I really ought to check the CC line, that seems fine to me, this is getting CC'd to he php-windows lists. I suppose what you REALLY wanted me to check is the To line also, but since you've not asked for that in such a rude way I'll not bother checking it. Anyway I'll make a suggestion to save everyone from this problem in the future, only send messages to a mailing list if it is what every member of the list wants to hear... to acheive this you must send a question "CAN I ASK A MATHEMATICAL QUESTION RELATED TO PHP", which is 1 email, then you must wait for the authorisation of every member many more e-mails, and then you can ask the question, the original e-mail, then you would still get the answers, the original e-mails.... increased traffic, more messages..... the other solution is that little bit of plastic with that word "DEL" written on. Just my thoughts on it. Adam On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 16:32, Svensson, B.A.T. (HKG) wrote: > Don't send CC message to those who does not need the information, > pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese!!! > > (I am starting to get pretty fucking annoyed about that people doesn't check > those things before pressing the send button/key.) > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Mike Flynn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 5:32 PM > >To: Svensson, B.A.T. (HKG); [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Mathimatical equations in PHP > > > > > >Huh? To average? You just use addition and division. It > >doesn't require > >a function. A function would not only be silly but probably take more > >keystrokes just to type. > > > >Average = sum of units' values / number of units. > > > >Additionally, you can do this automatically if you're storing > >your values > >in a database such as MySQL, using built-in functions. See the MySQL > >manual (www.mysql.com) or whatever database for more on this. > > > >-Mike > > > >At 05:11 PM 12/28/2001 +0100, Svensson, B.A.T. (HKG) wrote: > >>I am kind of pessimistic by nature, and would not with out > >having checked > >>out this thing believe the case is not in you favor this time. > >> > >> /Anders > >> > >> >-----Original Message----- > >> >From: Todd Williamsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >> >Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 5:04 PM > >> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Mathimatical equations in PHP > >> > > >> > > >> >That is not what I was looking for, is there a function in PHP > >> >that does this? > >> > > > > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
