Re: [mv] Re: AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Birgitt Funk <birgitt@my-books.com>]

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On Fri, 12 May 2000, Chris Rapier wrote:

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> 
> Ryan Hertz wrote:
> 
> > >****** message to minivend-users from Ben-Nes Michael ****** There is one
> > >very important thing that will boost Minivend and its an html page
> > >contains example codes that peoples submitted.
> > >Many people can benefit from browsing the codes and learn from it.
> > 
> > I think that this mailing list and/or archives serves that purpose very well.
> 
> I disagree completely and I've made a lot of use of the archive. Finding
> the code examples in the archive is often a laborious and fruitless
> prospect. Assuming you even use the right search terms you still need to
> wade through page and pages of results and hope that somone said
> something to make it worthwhile. The benefits of a 'cookbook' is that
> you can easily browse through it gleaning information from commented
> code examples and finding answers you might not have been able to
> properly phrase the question for. This is why the perl cookbooks have
> been so amazingly useful to me. I'm not saying Mike shoudl be the one to
> do this but it would be nice is there was a place where people could
> submit tricks, tips, user tags and more to share with the rest of the
> community.
> 
> Chris Rapier

I don't think this is a question of a missing place to put such things.
I remember Stefan Hornburg had offered his space for usertags, you can
always submit to the mailing list, several people have offered space,
Christopher Thompson, for example.

I assume you are looking for content, not for space and you want
others to do the work of scanning through the archives, pulling
out the goodies and putting them up in an orderly fashion.

Who wouldn't want that. Your request reminds me of a lot of things...

BTW, the best cookbooks are written by people who cook themselves, tasted
their meals and served them to some demanding customers  (such as
husbands...)
8-)

Birgitt


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