Re: How to get people use forums and mailing lists [was Re: Career Help Urgent!]

brian d foy writes:

> You really can't blame some poor soul for seeing a mailing list named
> "[email protected]" and interpreting that as a place to get help from
> Perl trainers.

It depends where they saw it, I suppose.  This isn't a widely known
list, and the places I can think of which mention it state its purpose
reasonably clearly -- though I'll concede that for a non-native-English
speaker that could be harder to dermine.

> Not one of the responses that I saw actaully tried to help the person,
> even by simply pointing them to the right place.

I would've done if I could think of a right place.  But I'm at a loss to
think whom somebody trying to cheat on a job application should
approach.  A priest, perhaps?

If the question had been plausible then I'd've suggested PerlMonks; but
as it was phrased it would only get shot down there too, so there didn't
seem to be any point.

> Let's not be assholes to newbies.

Sure.  But equally I don't want to encourage people to get Perl jobs
dishonestly -- especially if it means somebody who actually knows Perl
doesn't get the job.

Smylers