From: Tom Anderson on
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Lew wrote:

> laredotornado wrote:
>>>> Omg, Tom, can I buy you a beer or something? ???That solution is exactly
>>>> what I was looking for.
>>
> Lew wrote:
>>> Do I get a beer, too, then?
>>
> Tom Anderson wrote:
>> U did not post teh codez!!!
>
> Oh, so it's not enough to post the answer, you have to do all the work
> for the OP, too?

Seems so!

> I get it. So if one has an answer to give, but thinks the OP should do
> SOME of the work themselves, there's no point in posting the answer?
> We don't expect people to think and learn and deduce any more? What
> kind of programmers will they turn out to be, then?

Ones whose careers depend on continuing to buy me beer.

>>> --
>>> Lew
>>> Don't quote sigs, in particular not this one.
>>
>> Use sigdashes, which comprise two dashes followed by a space.
>
> The internet eats my spaces when I post from a browser.

Ah, yes, someone probably thought that was a feature.

> When I post from Thunderbird it works fine.
>
> Even without sigdashes, it's possible not to quote the sig. You didn't
> use sigdashes,

I totally always use sigdashes! Are mine being eaten too?

> and yet somehow by some weird miracle of my using my brain your sig was
> not quoted.
>
> I guess the message of your message is that people shouldn't have to
> think.

I do not believe i expressed a normative opinion on the matter.

tom

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