WC -Sx- Jones wrote: > Serguei Krivov wrote: > > Bill, > > > > Would it not be better to post (copy) this message and the following postings to > > perl.tips oriented for beginners (like me) > > > > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.tips > > > > Later it is going to be much easier to search perl.tips with 8 messages posted up > > to date then go through 61314 messages in perl.beginners. > > Yes. But wouldn't it be only 61_314Base36 messages? :)
... > I am both pleased and annoyed that I have gotten very little flames over > my How To posting -- not that I want to annoy people, I don't; I am > simply trying to condense certain questions and thoughts that I myself > had when I was starting out so that others may say 'Ohhhhhh ... I see.' Well, that is cool. The only problem is that it is not always likely to reach the people who need it. Generally those who have not leaned to use the perldoc utility may also not carefully peruse the threads for related topics. So your thread, with eactly the information someone needs in a given situation, might languish unread while the student thrashes. Better just to respond to the situations as they arise. Sometimes this will mean pointing a person back to a recent thread that they *really should have* read themselves before posting. Sometimes a thread may also lead to other questions about the approach a person is taking to learning Perl, or to structuring problems. Message threads can take some interesting courses, and it is not only more spontaneous, but also more information-efficient, to make the knowledge meaningful in its context, to find the teachable moment. Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
