Re: The Unofficial Perl Win32 Users Flameware/Mega-Thread FAQ

2003-09-23 Thread Ted S.
Michael D. Smith graced perl with these words of wisdom: > We're definitely in for it now. Whip out the spam filters and prepare > to weather the storm. Oh, I've already got my spam-filter in action for that [EMAIL PROTECTED] Swen worm. :-) See as well my post from the 18th titled "Regex humor

RE: The Unofficial Perl Win32 Users Flameware/Mega-Thread FAQ

2003-09-23 Thread Arms, Mike
Michael D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You will recall the current mega-thread started not with a > question but a mention of "it" in jest. I hesitate to say > "it" for obvious reason but since everyone knows what "it" > means, that may not matter. We may all be doomed to lifetime > filled w

Re: The Unofficial Perl Win32 Users Flameware/Mega-Thread FAQ

2003-09-23 Thread Michael D. Smith
27;re definitely in for it now. Whip out the spam filters and prepare to weather the storm. ms At 06:10 AM 9/23/03, you wrote: It's that time of year again: please allow me to present the *Unofficial* Flameware/Mega-Thread FAQ, posting II: Feel like a bit of a tussle? Feel like avoiding

The Unofficial Perl Win32 Users Flameware/Mega-Thread FAQ

2003-09-23 Thread Lee Goddard
It's that time of year again: please allow me to present the *Unofficial* Flameware/Mega-Thread FAQ, posting II: Feel like a bit of a tussle? Feel like avoiding one? Here's a handy cut-out-and-keep list of favourite fighting-talk subjects for this list: * HTML e-mail and you

RE: FAQ

2002-05-22 Thread Peter Eisengrein
Title: RE: FAQ HEY! In my own defense: -- I only did that once -- I was referring to Time::Local (not localtime :) -- I am a bonehead -- it really is counter-intuitive to have the month 0-based     and the day and year 1-based. Especially since the months     are commonly referred

Re: FAQ

2002-05-22 Thread Cameron Dorey
r > time responding. Except that people will respond, anyway, sometimes 24-48 hours after the fact, because they haven't read the FAO-server's reply. It happens here, with our manual FAQ-servers. Not to criticize the FAQ-answerers unduly, but IMHO it won't cut down on th

RE: FAQ

2002-05-22 Thread Tillman, James
>My favorite is when people ( who presumedly > haven't been using Perl for more than a few weeks ) declare they might > have found a bug in some common function that people have been using > since 1987(so says -v). I am referring to the popular "$mon from > localtime is off by one month, is this a

RE: FAQ

2002-05-22 Thread Herbold, John W.
I have to say, that I like the idea of an auto-responder for the following reasons. 1) People will always post a question to the list with out researching. 2) There is nothing anybody can do about #1. 3) A FAQ with every answer in the world does no good if people do not check it before

Re: FAQ

2002-05-22 Thread Ron Grabowski
> Yup - a decent faq and a reminder work rather well for most FAQ's assuming > the users read some emails before posting and didn't subscribe just to ask a > question. An auto-responder would be unpopular and put new users off, as I don't think there is a need for

RE: FAQ

2002-05-22 Thread Rubinow, Larry
Tillman, James wrote: > ;-) But even then only historically so. I share Lee's inability to > understand how Buffy the Vampire Slayer has even the > slightest thing to do > with Perl. Please consult with the london.pm PerlMongers group. Or better yet, with sunnydale.pm. __

RE: FAQ

2002-05-22 Thread Tillman, James
> >Also I can reccomend a well trained infobot on irc - the > perl mongers have > >several very well informed infobots that do things like > whois and weather > >lookups as well as factoids on all thing perl related (monty > python, buffy > >the vampire slayer, photos of drunken perl mongers an

RE: FAQ

2002-05-22 Thread Lee Goddard
At 17:00 22/05/2002, Aaron Trevena wrote: > > >Actually its better to include the urls to the archive and the faq in the > > >email footer. > > > > That's a very bold statement - can you support it? > >Yup - a decent faq and a reminder work rather well

RE: FAQ

2002-05-22 Thread Aaron Trevena
> At 15:23 22/05/2002, Aaron Trevena wrote: > > > Why don't we make a FAQ Auto-responder? > > > It could scan subjects and first ten lines for > > > a FAQ, and if it finds one, send the FAQ answer. > > > > > > So it wouldn't c

RE: FAQ

2002-05-22 Thread Lee Goddard
At 15:23 22/05/2002, Aaron Trevena wrote: > > Why don't we make a FAQ Auto-responder? > > It could scan subjects and first ten lines for > > a FAQ, and if it finds one, send the FAQ answer. > > > > So it wouldn't cope with the silliest questions, > >

RE: FAQ

2002-05-22 Thread Aaron Trevena
> Why don't we make a FAQ Auto-responder? > It could scan subjects and first ten lines for > a FAQ, and if it finds one, send the FAQ answer. > > So it wouldn't cope with the silliest questions, > but should get most Actually its better to include the urls to th

FAQ

2002-05-22 Thread Lee Goddard
Why don't we make a FAQ Auto-responder? It could scan subjects and first ten lines for a FAQ, and if it finds one, send the FAQ answer. So it wouldn't cope with the silliest questions, but should get most Lee Goddard perl -e "while(1){print rand>

Re: Where's the faq ?

2001-03-02 Thread Ron Grabowski
c. PerlScript also allows you to run Perl code alongside VBScript code from the command line. My oroginal URL was in reference to PerlScript not a general Perl language FAQ. ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.co

Re: Where's the faq ?

2001-03-02 Thread $Bill Luebkert
o I can see the proper directory and file > structure to set up a script correctly. You can start by answering the questions I posed in this and my previous post. Read perlwin32faq6 and 7 from AS on web server config and programming. Some links for you: WWW Security FAQ http://www.w3.org/

Re: Where's the faq ?

2001-03-02 Thread Rodeo Red
"$Bill Luebkert" wrote: > > Rodeo Red wrote: > > > > Yes I have looked through that and it seems to completely skip over > > setting up the files for a simple form that uses a perl script. I have > > looked at numerous books and they tell you how to do perl once it is set > > up- but theres ver

Re: Where's the faq ?

2001-03-01 Thread Ron Grabowski
> I'm trying to read the Active state FAQ http://www.activestate.com/Support/ActivePerl/index.html ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users

Re: Where's the faq ?

2001-03-01 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Rodeo Red wrote: > > I'm trying to read the Active state FAQ > > file:///C%7C/Perl/html/index.html says > Contents of this FAQ > > ActivePerl-faq: Overview of the ActivePerl FAQ (this document) > ActivePerl-faq2: Perl Package Manager (PPM) > > S

Where's the faq ?

2001-03-01 Thread Rodeo Red
I'm trying to read the Active state FAQ file:///C%7C/Perl/html/index.html says Contents of this FAQ ActivePerl-faq: Overview of the ActivePerl FAQ (this document) ActivePerl-faq2: Perl Package Manager (PPM) So where is the ActivePerl FAQ ? The first part is an intro and the seco