Re: Perl PDF modules - help please

From: Andrew DeFaria (Andrew_at_DeFaria.com)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:19:37 -0700

Brian McCauley wrote:

> To understand why this is not the case one needs to appreciate the
> reasons behind the rules of netequette. Most of rules of netiquette
> that we bang on about here boil down to one simple convention: "the
> time freely given to assist others should be valued and must not be
> squandered"[1].

And some boil down to "That's the way we've always done it so we'll just
keep doing it that way". 

-- 
Why does mineral water that has trickled through mountains for centuries 
have a "use by" date?

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