From: "Raymond Wan" <r....@aist.go.jp>On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 00:06, Octavian Rasnita <orasn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Better say that bottom-post is an old habit (and advanced programmers usually > have old habits and not the newbies) and that the rules are enforced by the > advanced programmers because they can help the others, and they want to > everyone respect their preferences as a respect for their efforts of helping > the newbies for free, not because the netiquette says this or that.
An extension to your reasoning is that there aren't just two groups of users on this list -- advanced and newbies -- but multiple levels. Beginners who don't follow the advanced programmers' rules may have questions that intermediate programmers can answer who aren't as nit-picky about the rules. Then, advanced programmers can direct their attention to more immediate questions by people who write in a way that they like and everyone is happy. How the question is asked implicitly says who (which group) the question is for... Core Perl experts that think it's just them and beginners on the list "risk" scaring people in the middle groups away, further making the problem worse [for them]. No?? Ray :-) (bottom - posted:) Octavian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
