Re: FWIW: Netscape register viewer and "archives"
Re: FWIW: Netscape register viewer and "archives"
- Subject: Re: FWIW: Netscape register viewer and "archives"
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 18:02:52 -0700
On 8/7/01 3:02 PM, "Mike Skinner" <email@hidden> wrote:
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After finally finding the "MacScrpt" archives (yes, Australia is down,
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Dartmouth's is still functioning but well-hidden) at
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<http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?S1=macscrpt> it has become
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painfully obvious that the "register viewer" command in Netscape's
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dictionary is only there to give the appearance of feature parity with
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Internet Explorer.
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It doesn't actually work.
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<WHINE>
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Why is it that it seems everything I want to do with
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Applescript/Javascript/HTML, etc., etc., is not doable?</WHINE>
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Is MacScrpt a better list than this one? I kinda like the idea of a list I
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can search.
Mostly, the two lists have the same group of experts and semi-experts who
answer questions. MacScrpt has fewer novice questions, and therefore a very
few experts (including a couple of super-experts) don't participate here, to
avoid the larger number of posts. Therefore the proportion of interesting
and obscure threads is probably higher there, and repeated mundane questions
lower, and less traffic. The extra traffic here occasionally leads to
interesting threads as well as more mundane ones. The great advantage of
this list is that sometimes the AppleScript engineers Chris Nebel and (more
rarely) Chris Espinosa participate, with from-the horse's-mouth stuff you
never get at MacScrpt. Therefore semi-experts sometimes ask their own
questions here, not there, in the hope that one of the Chrises will answer.
By now, you'll realize that if you're serious about AS, you'll have to join
both. MacScrpt is supposed to be for all Macintosh scripting (MacPerl,
OneClick, Frontier, what-have-you, all of which have their own mailing
lists), but it's more than 95% AppleScript. It's older than this one.
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Paul Berkowitz