From: pDale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
His signature is followed by the proper signature block flag, a line with
only dash dash space. This means that any decent email client will delete
that entire block of text automatically when you reply to him or forward it.
The same cannot be said of quoted text that
Hey guys,
if you put as much effort into using the scroll
wheel on your mouse and/or the scrollbar on your mail
client, then it wouldn't matter top or bottom post.
I come here for answers, can we get back to the
main show now please?
--- Foo Ji-Haw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I didn't
I didn't know there's so many views on top posting! Reading through the
comments and the replies,
here are my thoughts and actions:
1. Bill is an active member of the mailing list. He has helped many
people including me in better understanding some of the finer points
with the language, and I
Dear Mr. Cohen and Mr. Dave,
I thank both you for providing great solutions. I will surely explore these
scripts.
Thanks Regards,
Sandeep Deshpande
-Original Message-
From: Nahum Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 3:05 AM
To: Ramlakhan, Dave
Cc: [EMAIL
$Bill Luebkert wrote:
Steve Dawson wrote:
On a 6MB test file, The regex ran in 2.48secs while my split ran in
6.19secs. Here's the variations I tried and the timings...
1) My version of the split: *6.19s*
@columns = split /\\s+\/
This one is faster than below, but doesn't handle
Most users are using Windows, and probably most users of this
list are using
Windows also.
Outlook and Outlook Express are the most used desktop email
clients and they
force the users to top post.
Never forced me to, in 15 years.
___
Octavian Rasnita wrote:
Well, I think that this fight of top posting versus bottom posting should
move to another one which is Why using MS Windows or MS email clients?,
because I think the most important reason for top posting is because some
email clients force us to do that.
I'm not sure
I'm ordering everybody to STAY AT THEIR POSTS!
$Bill Luebkert wrote:
Octavian Rasnita wrote:
Well, I think that this fight of top posting versus bottom posting should
move to another one which is Why using MS Windows or MS email clients?,
because I think the most important reason for top
Peter Scott replied
Doing a string eval is revolting to begin with, but I would just put in a
no warnings 'redefine';
around the subsequent eval.
Thanks to all who replied to my eval question. I was called away on a family
matter and am now just getting back to work.
I am using the
Am I the only one who is getting a bit tired of all the
posts about this subject, interesting though they may be? Surely weve
had enough of this now for a board that is supposed to be about ActivePerl. Is
there not somewhere else that those that want to continue can argue the case
for and
Scott Leighton wrote:
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 7:23 am, Richard Z. Ward wrote:
For what it's worth, e-mail programs like MS Outlook make it
difficult to *not* top-post.
An excellent reason to change to a better mail client. Outlook and OE
play by their own rules, it's not reasonable to
So what's the latest status on Perl 6 ?
If you really want fun, laughter and a chance to read Damian Conway, Larry
Wall and others (referred to as @Larry - those in charge of Perl/Perl 6)
live and unedited, you should subscribe to one of the perl 6 lists (
perl6-language is good - that and
Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech) wrote:
Peter Scott replied
Doing a string eval is revolting to begin with, but I would just put
in a
no warnings 'redefine';
around the subsequent eval.
Thanks to all who replied to my eval question. I was called away on a
family matter and am now
Brian Raven wrote
As an alternative to my previous suggestion, why not define your plugins
as Perl classes. In this way each file being edited can have an object
of the appropriate plugin class associated with it, which would make it
easier to edit multiple files at once.
So you might have
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric
Robertson
Sent: 05 October 2005 15:22
To: activeperl@listserv.ActiveState.com
Subject: Top Posting
Am I the only one who is getting a bit tired of all the posts about
this subject, interesting though they
maybe? Surely we've
Scott Leighton wrote:
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 7:23 am, Richard Z. Ward wrote:
For what it's worth, e-mail programs like MS Outlook make it
difficult to *not* top-post.
An excellent reason to change to a better mail client. Outlook and OE
play by their own rules, it's not reasonable to
I have written several small Perl scripts that were
"compiled" with perl2exe.
My harddrive crashed and is
unrecoverable.
It happens that the compiledprograms were
offline.
I understand that it may be possible to recover the
original scripts.
I have asked the IndigoStart people but they
Eric Robertson wrote:
Am I the only one who is getting a bit tired of all the posts about this
subject, interesting though they may be? Surely we’ve had enough of this
now for a board that is supposed to be about ActivePerl. Is there not
somewhere else that those that want to continue can
Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech) wrote:
For many of us, changing to a better mail client is not an option. We have
to live with what our employer provides.
In dealing with our clients and other lists, Top Posting is preferred.
But please take note I am using Outlook and with a little effort I
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