On Dec 5, 2003, at 6:58 AM, Wiggins d Anconia wrote:
[..]
may get in the way of someone
looking for a distilled IJustWantTheDamnAnswer listing ;-).
[..]
Let's review the bidding a bit so far.
A brief review of the last 45 days will
get you to Jason's original Kvetch about
not quite getting 'perldo
>
> On Dec 4, 2003, at 8:41 PM, R. Joseph Newton wrote:
> > Guay Jean-Sébastien wrote:
> >> ...
> >> Though it doesn't benefit those who didn't post the question
> >> (and answers seldom do, since people who can answer questions
> >> normally don't need the answers),
> >
> > I would not assume tha
Casey West wrote:
> I'm beta-testing a robot that searches Google when new questions are
> posed to the beginners' lists. I have no idea if it will be useful.
> :-)
>
> I'm going to watch it closely and hope it is. I'll remove it if I
> find that it does a bad job.
>
> Casey West
Hi Casey,
I
On Dec 4, 2003, at 8:41 PM, R. Joseph Newton wrote:
Guay Jean-Sébastien wrote:
...
Though it doesn't benefit those who didn't post the question
(and answers seldom do, since people who can answer questions
normally don't need the answers),
I would not assume that at all. Programming is an extremel
Guay Jean-Sébastien wrote:
> ...
> Though it doesn't benefit those who didn't post the question (and answers
> seldom do, since people who can answer questions normally don't need the
> answers),
I would not assume that at all. Programming is an extremely open-ended art and
set of skills. I thi
It was Thursday, December 04, 2003 when Chuck Fox took the soap box, saying:
: Casey,
:
: I would like to chime in on the side of sending the search results
: directly to the poster. In most cases, the poster is at the mercy of
: the search engine they choose. Whereas, you have the advantage of
Casey,
I would like to chime in on the side of sending the search results
directly to the poster. In most cases, the poster is at the mercy of
the search engine they choose. Whereas, you have the advantage of
knowing where to search. Please do not abandon this work. A digest --
to which, o
On Dec 4, 2003, at 7:23 AM, Christopher G Tantalo wrote:
[..]
This does seem like a good idea, but for some of us who
can not access the web from work, this just makes it worse.
[..]
Personally I am neutralish in this debate about the bot,
but I think that Christopher has put the scary part on
the
It was Wednesday, December 03, 2003 when Casey West took the soap box, saying:
: I'm beta-testing a robot that searches Google when new questions are
: posed to the beginners' lists. I have no idea if it will be useful.
: :-)
:
: I'm going to watch it closely and hope it is. I'll remove it if I
I also admire the effort and the good intentions, but,
I think most Perl programmers can handle a Google search, and the bot
just creates unnecessary traffic on the list. At a minimum, it should only
send to the original poster, not the whole list.
my $2Cents;
-Tom Kinzer
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My $0.02 on this:
While it may be a worthwhile personal pursuit to write a script that
provides relevant results from google based on the text of someone's
email/news posting/etc, I don't think this is the forum for it. These
are very busy lists to start with and this essentially will result in
do
Casey West wrote:
> I'm beta-testing a robot that searches Google when new questions are
> posed to the beginners' lists. I have no idea if it will be useful.
I'm not thrilled with the bot traffic, but at least it can be easily
filtered out now. Perhaps the bot should only address questions that
> and may very quickly become
> outdated, then the amount of crud someone must wade through if they are
> one of the few that actually check the archive first has gone up greatly.
You've got a good point there. I didn't see it from that point of view, but
now that I do, I agree that this is not re
Casey West wrote:
I'm beta-testing a robot that searches Google when new questions are
posed to the beginners' lists. I have no idea if it will be useful.
:-)
I'm going to watch it closely and hope it is. I'll remove it if I
find that it does a bad job.
Casey West
This does seem like a good id
It was Wednesday, December 03, 2003 when Casey West took the soap box, saying:
: I'm beta-testing a robot that searches Google when new questions are
: posed to the beginners' lists. I have no idea if it will be useful.
: :-)
I should like to make an important note. This bot is not intended to
de
> I don't quite understand why the first response is sent back to the list
> rather than just the OP though?
Why do you send your responses (answers to questions) to the list instead of
to the OP? So that others can benefit, and so that it will be in the list
archives when someone else has the sam
It was Thursday, December 04, 2003 when Wiggins d Anconia took the soap box, saying:
:
:
: > It was Wednesday, December 03, 2003 when Casey West took the soap box,
: saying:
: > : I'm beta-testing a robot that searches Google when new questions are
: > : posed to the beginners' lists. I have no
> > I don't quite understand why the first response is sent back to the list
> > rather than just the OP though?
>
> Why do you send your responses (answers to questions) to the list
instead of
> to the OP? So that others can benefit, and so that it will be in the list
> archives when someone el
> It was Wednesday, December 03, 2003 when Casey West took the soap box,
saying:
> : I'm beta-testing a robot that searches Google when new questions are
> : posed to the beginners' lists. I have no idea if it will be useful.
> : :-)
>
> I should like to make an important note. This bot is not
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