On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 04:18, Brandon McCaig <bamcc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Raymond Wan <r....@aist.go.jp> wrote: >> 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?? > > This whole discussion is stupid. :P The OP was a little off topic, but > as others have said, Shlomi Fish is one of the more constructive > posters on this list. And even ignoring that, the OP wasn't /that/ off > topic. Maybe I only feel this way because it actually interests me to > write open source software, but meh.
Well, maybe the discussion is "stupid", but it is certainly not irrelevant. If you have an interest in open source software, then I think you will agree that open source software isn't just about having source open and which file should a new function be added. As much as open source contributors would just like to talk about coding, other benign administrative-related discussions take over. Likewise, everyone just wants to talk about Perl on this list, but how the list is run is also relevant. Perhaps we would all like to have the best of both worlds -- the popularity of an unmoderated list but with rules of a moderated list. But, unless I am mistaken, this list isn't moderated. All we can really do is ignore postings that we don't like; and some newbie posting for the first time might be helped by another "newbie" who posted for the first time 4 weeks ago. Just a thought...but I know keeping the status quo is always far easier... :-) Ray -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
