Re: what's the best environment to exercise Perl?

From: Abhinav (matrix_calling_at_yahoo.dot.com)
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:31:29 +0530

Note: Comments here addressed to the OP :)

Tassilo v. Parseval wrote:

> Also sprach Alont:
>
>
>>could you help me how to set cursor automatically stay below quoting?
>>I use Agent, this software's default setting is that cursor
>>automatically stay on the top of quoting.
>
>
> How much work can it be to hit PGDN a couple of times? Also, don't ask
> to be spoon-fed. The configuration of your news client is your affair
> and not that of this group.
>

In addition (ad I have mentioned elsethread) Cntrl-End dose it irrespective
of the length of the post.

>
>>I asked a man who knows the history of Usenet, He said that reply in
>>top or bottom is not a rule people must obey, that just a custom of
>>NNTP client, I use Forte Agent1.8, and you use Mozilla/5.0 that's why
>>you reply in bottom and I wrote in top, you think this also my fault?
>
>
> This guy is wrong (apparently he doesn't know the history of
> comp.lang.perl.misc). Avoiding top-posts is a rule that you have to obey
> in this group, or else people will start to ignore you after a while.
>

In addition, please check the following link for more details :

http://www.4qd.org/philos/Netiquette.html#toppost

[Snip]

Abhinav 

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