Re: topic areas for perl-beginners list

2012-05-03 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 12-05-03 11:16 AM, John SJ Anderson wrote: Or you could exercise that whole "freedom to not answer questions" thing I mentioned. I didn't say the list was for "general Perl and CPAN questions". It is for people who are beginning to learn Perl, or some aspect of Perl. Generally speaking, pe

Re: topic areas for perl-beginners list (was: Re: Template toolkit issue [SOLVED])

2012-05-03 Thread John SJ Anderson
On May 3, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Shawn H Corey wrote: > On 12-05-03 09:55 AM, John SJ Anderson wrote: >> One situation I really want to avoid with perl-beginners is having the >> "old hands" here send people to other lists, only to have the people >> on those other lists say "we don't have time to ho

Re: topic areas for perl-beginners list (was: Re: Template toolkit issue [SOLVED])

2012-05-03 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 12-05-03 09:55 AM, John SJ Anderson wrote: One situation I really want to avoid with perl-beginners is having the "old hands" here send people to other lists, only to have the people on those other lists say "we don't have time to hold your hand, maybe you should ask on perl-beginners instead"

topic areas for perl-beginners list (was: Re: Template toolkit issue [SOLVED])

2012-05-03 Thread John SJ Anderson
> Sorry, but this is a beginners list. Questions about learning Perl or the > modules in perlmodlib are consider beginners questions. Questions about > other modules are not. No offense intended, but I disagree. None of the questions in this thread have been off-topic for perl-beginners. (perl-b