Kevin Brannen posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:50:48 -0600:
> Thanks for the explanation. It was longer than I expected, but quite > appreciated nevertheless. OT but FWIW... That seems to be my blessing and my curse. =8^\ My posts tend to be long and wordy, but provide background and additional information along the lines of the "teach a person to fish" goal, while most folks seem to settle for the "give a person a fish" goal. I've received many thanks over the years, but a number of complaints as well, and a couple of kill file notifications. That's fine with me. Killfiling is IMO an absolute right of any USENET (or list) participant, which need-not be explained or notified in any case, and I don't notify those who I killfile (generally for consistently generating more noise than signal). If my posts are of little use to them, and only make them frustrated, then by all means, let them filter me. IMO that's better than flaming, which really /is/ more noise than signal. Meanwhile, others continue to find my posts useful and informative, judging by continued feedback, so I continue making them. =8^) I've been tempted to try the "scripted external editor method" myself, but have so far not gotten around to actually doing it. I'm supposedly learning Python ATM, tho I keep finding other things to do instead. Perhaps if I ever get that done, I'll choose this as one of my first "real" projects with it. Of course, it'd be more likely to happen if someone posted a start at it for me to work at, in either bash, which I know decently already, or python, which I /want/ to know decently, and /wish/ it was "already". <g> -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
