Re: gateway between googlegroups and the list

[email protected] ("Chas. Owens")
Newsgroups perl.beginners
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chas. Owens wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> snip
>>>>>
>>>>> any question thatis appropriate to this list will annoy the readers of
>>>>> CLPM.
>>>>
>>>> That's not true. Well-written beginner-level questions are typically
>>>> well
>>>> received at clpmisc.
>>
>> snip
>>
>> The problem is that beginners don't tend to ask well-written questions.
>
> Are you saying that badly written questions are appropriate to this list? I
> hope not. ;-)

Actually, yes.  Part of this list's goals are to help beginners become
acclimated to Perl culture.  Letting them ask questions poorly and
then trying to help them ask questions in a better way is part of the
mission.

-- 
Chas. Owens
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