RE: [mv] Question too difficult??

[Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>]

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OK Enough - Scott, post your question or let it go!

- Ed L.

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><ssattert@homier.com>     ******
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>Barry and all:
>
>Your're right.  I'm guilty on all counts.
>I couldn't resist the urge to stir the fire a little...has to do with
>the frustration level of spending more than a week an the same silly
>issue.
>
>As for the crack about ASP, I was actually implying (not successfully)
>that I could write my site using ASP (my forte: Visual Basic, Pascal,
>SQL) in much less time that I had been spending trying to figure out a
>few minor details in Minivend.  Details, I might add, that have mostly
>to do with my lack of PERL experience.  For the record, PERL makes a
>hell of a lot more sence to me this week than it did last week.
>
>I have lot of faith in Linux as a Web platform. Moreso than NT (that is
>coming from an NT administrator).  You can't argue with the proven
>success of Apache.
>And, all-in-all, Mike Heins has done one heck of a job developing a very
>workable e-commerce solution and I'm sure the program will continue to
>evolve and improve
>(THANK YOU MIKE!). You sure can't argue with Minivend's pricetag.
>
>As for this list; I have seen a lot of questions answered and some
>ignored.  Overall, I think everyone is very helpfull. When my experience
>allows it, I try to help out.
>
>As for my original question that has yet to be addressed:  It had to do
>with the tag_data routine in Vend::Interpolate.  If anyone wants a crack
>at it, let me know and I'll re-post it.
>
>Thanks for the help I've received from everyone.
>
>Scott Satterthwaite
>Webmaster, LAN Administrator
>Homier Mobile Merchants
>
>________
>
>Barry Treahy wrote:
>
>I don't know what the original question was regarding MV, but this
>definitely
>qualifies as a
>stupid statement presuming that ASP users can or will answer questions
>related to MV or
>visa-versa.  Definitely not apples-to-apples.
>
>I for one am truly amazed at the number of people willing to help and
>answer
>novice questions
>today, when compared to even a year ago when I started.  THANK YOU
>ALL!!!  When examined over the
>past 18 months period, the participation has increased several orders of
>magnitude, though the
>patience of novice people haven't.  I didn't have patience 18 months
>ago, but I also didn't give
>up so quickly either...
>
>If there are any words of wisdom from a recovering-novice to a novice,
>cool your jets, roll-up
>your sleaves, and put some effort into resolving the problem yourself.
>
>If your original problem went unanswered, it is probably because it
>never actually posted, it
>posted but has been answered ten zillion times and can be found in the
>archives, or the question
>was so poorly stated that people couldn't understand why you are asking
>how to run ASP pages on a
>Amiga with a Revel Blender front-end.
>
>My two cents.
>
>Barry Treahy
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