> > However, it's not "ActivePerl-Users" but "Perl-Win32-Users".
>
> This brings up a question: Perhaps it should now be ActivePerl-Users? This
> would serve to further emphasize the cross-platformness of ActivePerl, and
> besides, in 90% of the discussions here, the OS is irrelevant. A lot of
> people ask their linux questions here anyway, and we don't find out unless
> someone gives a Win32-specific answer and they respond "um, well, I'm
using
> linux. Any other ideas?"
Fair point! However I am neither an activstate user nor a win32 user and I
still find this newsgroup to be one of the better resources, and perhaps we
should really stick with the fact that we're looking at the
'cross-platformness' of Perl in general too. I like the fact that this
newsgroup deals with fundamental issues as well as specific issues.
Besides, I've still not found a decent Linux-Perl newsgroup!!:-)
> > And, as Woodrow
> > pointed out, neither "Perl" nor "Win32" has anything to do
> > with web mail as
> > such. They can be done in Perl, but then on-topic questions
> > would be about
> > the implementation rather than the algorithm, in my opinion.
> > That is to say,
> > "I want to do X Y Z in order to set up web mail, how do I
> > express this in
> > Perl?" rather than "How do I set up web mail?".
>
> I agree. But I have a feeling that's what the original poster really
meant.
> He could have been more specific, though.
I agree that the question is off topic - however I think that 'Asking'
off-topic questions is fine, nobody is obliged to answer them, but if you
can then I guess its a nicety to answer them. Besides who would you rather
trust, someone who you've seen posting knowledgable answers to perl problems
over a few months, or someone you don't know on a completely new newsgroup.
And I think that most people who programme perl have to do other things as
well (which include system administration), so you come back to the sense of
this group being more a community rather than a questions and answers
animal.
Anyway that's my fourpenneth.
Marty
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