Fwd: POD, Faq and tradition - Re: extracting email addys.

[drieux]

On Saturday, Nov 22, 2003, at 16:18 US/Pacific, Randal L. Schwartz 
wrote:
[..]
It's just that we keep seeing this over and over again.  That's the 
point
of the FAQ.  What happened to the ethic of even ATTEMPTING to look
for a local FAQ before posting to a list.

{sigh}
I think a part of the problem is the willingness
of some of us to 'respond' to questions, without
always thinking about the need for some discipline
about what is IN the POD and FAQ.
a part of that problem is also the fact that
most folks just don't understand 'perldoc'
let alone 'perldoc -q mail' to query the
faq that they have for things related to mail.
The other side of this may be tied up with the
lack of awareness about the CPAN, and that some
of these problems are that OLD, and keep
coming around on the list as new folks show
up and need to be taught the standards
        a. how to ask an effective question
        b. what resources are available
        c. how to use those resources
Then there is also the 'age' problem, since
RFC822 is, well, not a Young RFC and is from
a time before time was known, or at least
closer to the Epoch than now. While at the
same time RFC2822 was reserved for the expected
day when an extension would be needed for things
no one could think about in those dark days when
we all beat out code the old fashion way with a stick
on a flat rock... And Consensus was based upon the
last person standing and all of that...
ciao
drieux
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