Re: Admin: a suggestion on the script corruption problem.
Re: Admin: a suggestion on the script corruption problem.
- Subject: Re: Admin: a suggestion on the script corruption problem.
- From: Cal <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 19:29:26 -0500
Dale Saukerson <email@hidden> wrote:
I vote for the readable solution. And I vote Chuq gets funds to hire
an assistant.
I want to follow the discussions by reading the sample code. I
believe you would better serve other newbies and inexperienced users
by allowing them to do the same. Suffering thru mangled text would
be much less of a burden than requiring us to use a tool to simply
follow the discussion. I would use the tool if made available, but
meanwhile if I can't demangle the code, I would ask the listmember to
send me the code via private E-mail.
We could alter our signatures to alert others to the fact that the
server mangles the code and suggest they request a sample by private
E-mail when they can't get the distributed code to work. Or how about
altering the listserver tag line to show the same thing?
Obviously, sample code is the *prime* function of this list. Lets
not all but remove easy access to it.
I understand where you're coming from, Dale. Sample code might be
the prime function of this list _to you_, but not necessarily overall.
I've been on this list from the beginning (I convinced Apple to set
it up in the first place). From what I've seen over the years,
discussions about uses of AppleScript, approaches to specific
problems, and questions (and answers to those questions) make up the
a great deal of the postings -- at least as much of what goes on on
this list as sample code (which is important but not the principal
reason for this list).
Of course, there are peaks and valleys and Richard 23. :^)
Cal