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Perl-Users Digest Mon, 22 Oct 2001 Volume: 10 Number: 1982
Today's topics:
Re: Sorting a pipe delimited database <Thomas@Baetzler.de>
Re: Sorting a pipe delimited database <diehard@nospam.userve.co.uk>
Re: Sorting a pipe delimited database <Thomas@Baetzler.de>
Statistics for comp.lang.perl.misc <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
Tool to help understand unknown Perl source code (Per Strömgren)
Re: Webpage Passwords <flavell@mail.cern.ch>
Re: Webpage Passwords <diehard@nospam.userve.co.uk>
Re: Webpage Passwords <bernard.el-hagin@lido-tech.net>
Re: Webpage Passwords <Thomas@Baetzler.de>
Re: Webpage Passwords <diehard@nospam.userve.co.uk>
Re: Webpage Passwords <diehard@nospam.userve.co.uk>
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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 16:22:50 +0200
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_B=E4tzler?= <Thomas@Baetzler.de>
Subject: Re: Sorting a pipe delimited database
Message-Id: <ir98ttg6qsaml4v0hcjitd7a1igun8l68h@4ax.com>
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, "Diehard Duck" <diehard@nospam.userve.co.uk> wrote:
>I'm fairly new to this Perl business and there are somethings I don't
>understand and some I do!
>#!/usr/bin/perl
Flags -w and -T missing.
># Display.cgi for Database_Doctor.cgi
># Mike Carville
># www.web-bazaar.com
># carville@web-bazaar.com
[...]
>##############################################################
># Parse from the web form
>##############################################################
>(!$ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'}) && (die __FILE__.' line '.__LINE__." No Request
>method, $!\n");
[...]
Should be rewritten using CGI.pm.
[...]
> open (DATABASE, "$datafile") || die print "$datafile";
> @data=<DATABASE>;
> close (DATABASE);
>
> $counter = 1;
>
> foreach $data(@data)
> {$search_data{$counter} = $data; $counter++;}
[...]
Needless file slurping. This should be better written as:
# no need to quote $datafile
# actually tell people what went wrong
open( DATABASE, $datafile ) or die "Error opening $datafile: $!\n";
my @data;
while( <DATABASE> ){
push @data, $_;
$search_data{$. - 1} = $_;
}
close( DATABASE );
That was as much MSA-Perl as I could stand.
HTH,
--
use strict;my($i,$t,@r)=(0,'5 -.@BHJPT4acd6e2hk2lmn2o4r2s3tuz',map{ord}
split//,unpack('u*','L#`T&)QD5#0`#!!`#%1D)#08`#P05!!(3``$$"``#"0L&``('.
'"`P<!`````0$`'));$t=~s/(\d)(.)/$2x$1/eg;map{$t.=substr$t,$i,1,''while
$_--;$i++}@r;print"$t\n";# Thomas@Baetzler.de - http://baetzler.de/perl
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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:36:24 +0100
From: "Diehard Duck" <diehard@nospam.userve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Sorting a pipe delimited database
Message-Id: <1003761389.13594.0.nnrp-14.9e98e2c7@news.demon.co.uk>
[snip]
> That was as much MSA-Perl as I could stand.
From my original posting:
"I am 'adapting' a free script, Database Doctor, to my own needs."
Therefore I am claiming no responsibility for the original code (which
works, even if it is bad).
I just want to sort the fields. If you would like to re-write the script,
I'm sure the author won't mind. You can download it free of charge from
http://www.web-bazaar.com/cgi/db_doctor.html
If anyone could solve my sort problem I'd be very grateful.
Many thanks
DD
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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:03:53 +0200
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_B=E4tzler?= <Thomas@Baetzler.de>
Subject: Re: Sorting a pipe delimited database
Message-Id: <p4d8ttcim4m5brldema5jgv0d70ijah4kh@4ax.com>
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, "Diehard Duck" <diehard@nospam.userve.co.uk> wrote:
>I just want to sort the fields. If you would like to re-write the script,
>I'm sure the author won't mind. You can download it free of charge from
>http://www.web-bazaar.com/cgi/db_doctor.html
>
>If anyone could solve my sort problem I'd be very grateful.
Try this fix (new lines indicated by leading '+'):
[...]
open (DATABASE, "$datafile") || die print "$datafile: $!";
@data=<DATABASE>;
close (DATABASE);
+ @data = map { $_->[1] }
+ sort { $a->[0] <=> $b->[0] }
+ map { [(split /\|/, $_)[13], $_] } @data;
$counter = 1;
foreach $data(@data)
{$search_data{$counter} = $data; $counter++;}
[...]
You may have to substitute your own sorting code for the plain <=> given
here.
HTH,
--
use strict;my($i,$t,@r)=(0,'5 -.@BHJPT4acd6e2hk2lmn2o4r2s3tuz',map{ord}
split//,unpack('u*','L#`T&)QD5#0`#!!`#%1D)#08`#P05!!(3``$$"``#"0L&``('.
'"`P<!`````0$`'));$t=~s/(\d)(.)/$2x$1/eg;map{$t.=substr$t,$i,1,''while
$_--;$i++}@r;print"$t\n";# Thomas@Baetzler.de - http://baetzler.de/perl
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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:31:46 -0000
From: Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.perl.misc
Message-Id: <tt8bei181jdd99@corp.supernews.com>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 15 Oct 2001 15:26:06 GMT and ending at
22 Oct 2001 14:58:17 GMT.
Notes
=====
- A line in the body of a post is considered to be original if it
does *not* match the regular expression /^\s{0,3}(?:>|:|\S+>|\+\+)/.
- All text after the last cut line (/^-- $/) in the body is
considered to be the author's signature.
- The scanner prefers the Reply-To: header over the From: header
in determining the "real" email address and name.
- Original Content Rating (OCR) is the ratio of the original content
volume to the total body volume.
- Find the News-Scan distribution on the CPAN!
<URL:http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/News/>
- Please send all comments to Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>.
- Copyright (c) 2001 Greg Bacon.
Verbatim copying and redistribution is permitted without royalty;
alteration is not permitted. Redistribution and/or use for any
commercial purpose is prohibited.
Excluded Posters
================
perlfaq-suggestions\@(?:.*\.)?perl\.com
faq\@(?:.*\.)?denver\.pm\.org
Totals
======
Posters: 337
Articles: 1095 (479 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 279
Volume generated: 2083.7 kb
- headers: 919.8 kb (18,142 lines)
- bodies: 1100.1 kb (37,674 lines)
- original: 705.5 kb (26,009 lines)
- signatures: 62.8 kb (1,427 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.641
Averages
========
Posts per poster: 3.2
median: 2 posts
mode: 1 post - 163 posters
s: 6.0 posts
Posts per thread: 3.9
median: 3 posts
mode: 1 post - 77 threads
s: 5.5 posts
Message size: 1948.6 bytes
- header: 860.1 bytes (16.6 lines)
- body: 1028.8 bytes (34.4 lines)
- original: 659.7 bytes (23.8 lines)
- signature: 58.7 bytes (1.3 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
=================================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
----- -------------------------- -------
57 128.0 ( 46.9/ 76.7/ 40.8) Benjamin Goldberg <goldbb2@earthlink.net>
39 104.4 ( 45.5/ 53.7/ 40.2) tadmc@augustmail.com
37 55.3 ( 33.6/ 21.4/ 12.6) Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be>
36 89.9 ( 32.4/ 50.4/ 31.6) mgjv@tradingpost.com.au
25 40.9 ( 21.0/ 19.9/ 7.1) Bernard El-Hagin <bernard.el-hagin@lido-tech.net>
25 46.2 ( 18.3/ 27.5/ 12.3) garry@zvolve.com
20 32.1 ( 19.7/ 12.3/ 4.6) "Tintin" <tintin@snowy.calculus>
18 29.8 ( 16.8/ 12.8/ 7.7) Jeff Zucker <jeff@vpservices.com>
17 32.6 ( 14.6/ 14.2/ 7.3) Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com>
17 28.7 ( 14.4/ 9.6/ 6.1) =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_B=E4tzler?= <Thomas@Baetzler.de>
These posters accounted for 26.6% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
-------------------------- ----- -------
128.0 ( 46.9/ 76.7/ 40.8) 57 Benjamin Goldberg <goldbb2@earthlink.net>
104.4 ( 45.5/ 53.7/ 40.2) 39 tadmc@augustmail.com
89.9 ( 32.4/ 50.4/ 31.6) 36 mgjv@tradingpost.com.au
55.3 ( 33.6/ 21.4/ 12.6) 37 Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be>
46.2 ( 18.3/ 27.5/ 12.3) 25 garry@zvolve.com
40.9 ( 21.0/ 19.9/ 7.1) 25 Bernard El-Hagin <bernard.el-hagin@lido-tech.net>
35.3 ( 12.4/ 22.9/ 14.2) 15 Andrew Cady <please@no.spam>
34.4 ( 14.4/ 17.2/ 11.2) 15 Joe Schaefer <joe+usenet@sunstarsys.com>
32.6 ( 14.6/ 14.2/ 7.3) 17 Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com>
32.1 ( 19.7/ 12.3/ 4.6) 20 "Tintin" <tintin@snowy.calculus>
These posters accounted for 28.7% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
==============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
1.000 ( 7.2 / 7.2) 9 "Steffen Müller" <tsee@gmx.net>
0.991 ( 4.0 / 4.0) 6 Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@free.fr>
0.974 ( 5.9 / 6.1) 6 Miko O'Sullivan <miko@idocs.com>
0.881 ( 20.6 / 23.3) 5 "Diehard Duck" <diehard@nospam.userve.co.uk>
0.831 ( 3.5 / 4.2) 8 Lou Moran <lmoran@wtsg.com>
0.817 ( 3.5 / 4.3) 6 peter pilsl <pilsl_@goldfisch.at>
0.813 ( 9.0 / 11.1) 7 Richard Trahan <rtrahan@monmouth.com>
0.799 ( 5.8 / 7.2) 6 "George Jempty" <jemptyg@rwmc.net>
0.789 ( 6.1 / 7.7) 12 Lars Oeschey <oeschey@media-saturn.com>
0.781 ( 8.8 / 11.2) 6 "Alexander Farber (EED)" <eedalf@eed.ericsson.se>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
=================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.449 ( 12.3 / 27.5) 25 garry@zvolve.com
0.448 ( 2.5 / 5.5) 7 Chris Fedde <cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us>
0.445 ( 2.3 / 5.1) 9 brian d foy <comdog@panix.com>
0.372 ( 4.6 / 12.3) 20 "Tintin" <tintin@snowy.calculus>
0.366 ( 2.9 / 7.8) 5 Carfield Yim <carfield@programmer.net>
0.356 ( 7.1 / 19.9) 25 Bernard El-Hagin <bernard.el-hagin@lido-tech.net>
0.334 ( 2.7 / 8.2) 15 Tony Curtis <tony_curtis32@yahoo.com>
0.316 ( 2.0 / 6.5) 5 Jerry McEwen <mail@mail.com>
0.309 ( 1.1 / 3.7) 8 John J. Trammell <trammell@haqq.hypersloth.invalid>
0.266 ( 0.6 / 2.4) 6 Ron Reidy <rereidy@indra.com>
46 posters (13%) had at least five posts.
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
=================================
Posts Subject
----- -------
27 Writing and reading encrypted string (password)
24 Scaling a DNA string
21 precedence question
19 putting $1..$9 into a replacement string such as $repl="=csinfo$1$2^$3"
15 Splitting on value pairs
14 perl algorithm
13 Need cgi script
13 Checking if a file exists
12 LTRIM & RTRIM ?
12 How to display text file in cgi-bin?
These threads accounted for 15.5% of all articles.
Top 10 Threads by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------
70.0 ( 21.3/ 47.5/ 31.4) 24 Scaling a DNA string
50.5 ( 27.9/ 20.9/ 12.8) 27 Writing and reading encrypted string (password)
46.8 ( 19.3/ 25.8/ 18.2) 21 precedence question
41.2 ( 17.6/ 22.9/ 12.2) 19 putting $1..$9 into a replacement string such as $repl="=csinfo$1$2^$3"
29.1 ( 9.4/ 19.5/ 7.6) 12 Can't get the output for shell command from CGI
27.0 ( 13.3/ 13.4/ 5.2) 15 Splitting on value pairs
26.7 ( 11.1/ 14.5/ 7.6) 14 perl algorithm
26.3 ( 10.3/ 14.6/ 9.6) 12 xsub - does anything work?
24.8 ( 12.0/ 12.1/ 6.7) 12 IE6 Error - Perl Output
23.0 ( 9.1/ 13.6/ 10.2) 10 Regex: extracting repeating values like x=a,b,c,d
These threads accounted for 17.5% of the total volume.
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
==============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.816 ( 4.5/ 5.5) 5 Objects: Setting defaults and calling themselves??
0.763 ( 7.3/ 9.6) 8 Creating a hash from a sub that parses XML
0.761 ( 5.6/ 7.3) 5 Searching and splitting..
0.754 ( 10.2/ 13.6) 10 Regex: extracting repeating values like x=a,b,c,d
0.748 ( 3.1/ 4.2) 5 I didn't do a very good job asking this...
0.733 ( 1.9/ 2.5) 5 How to Ping to an IP
0.722 ( 6.9/ 9.5) 11 lookingglass.pl
0.714 ( 10.0/ 14.0) 6 Writing to existing file
0.710 ( 8.0/ 11.2) 11 Good Literature
0.708 ( 18.2/ 25.8) 21 precedence question
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
=================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.444 ( 3.7 / 8.2) 8 Using a remote file with a Perl script
0.425 ( 3.0 / 7.1) 6 perl AIX - problem
0.416 ( 2.7 / 6.6) 13 Need cgi script
0.415 ( 1.1 / 2.6) 6 ImageMagick or Gimp??
0.390 ( 7.6 / 19.5) 12 Can't get the output for shell command from CGI
0.386 ( 5.2 / 13.4) 15 Splitting on value pairs
0.386 ( 5.0 / 13.0) 12 How to display text file in cgi-bin?
0.382 ( 3.0 / 7.9) 8 push, pop, shift, unshift, splice et al
0.330 ( 1.6 / 4.7) 5 Problems with ActiveState and MCPAN
0.314 ( 1.1 / 3.6) 6 charAt???
82 threads (29%) had at least five posts.
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
=============================
Articles Newsgroup
-------- ---------
20 comp.lang.perl.modules
5 comp.lang.perl.moderated
5 comp.protocols.snmp
5 alt.perl
4 comp.lang.perl
2 alt.comp.perlcgi.freelance
2 comp.os.linux.x
1 comp.lang.tcl
1 comp.lang.scheme
Top 10 Crossposters
===================
Articles Address
-------- -------
4 Thomas Wilson <tewilson@mitre.org>
4 "Tony McIver" <tmciver@yottanetworks.com>
3 David Coppit <newspost@coppit.org>
3 "Usyk, Walter [SKY:1P67:EXCH]" <wusyk@americasm01.nt.com>
2 "Matthew Lock" <matthew@perthonline.net>
2 David Rush <kumo@bellsouth.net>
2 ajohnson_no_spam@purplemountain.net
2 Sean Egan <sean.egan@eei.ericsson.se>
2 Dan Sugalski <dan@tuatha.sidhe.org>
2 Benjamin Goldberg <goldbb2@earthlink.net>
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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 13:30:02 GMT
From: Per.Stromgren@ein.obliterate.ericsson.se (Per Strömgren)
Subject: Tool to help understand unknown Perl source code
Message-Id: <9r15of$9j6$1@newstoo.ericsson.se>
I have inherited a rather large set of Perl programs. Some of these
lack all documentation, unfortunatly. Are there any proven ways of
attacking this problem? The programs are several thousand lines
typically and are used as CGI programs. I could need, for example, a
program that filters out the function definitions and function calls
and make a call graph, in order to help me out fixing small errors and
doing other maintenance.
Do you know of any program of this sort or have other ideas how to
solve the problem with the non-existent documentation? I suppose this
does not happen in your company, but perhaps you know anyway.
Per Stromgren
Managing Web Editor
Ericsson Infotech AB
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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:19:23 +0200
From: "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@mail.cern.ch>
Subject: Re: Webpage Passwords
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0110221516390.32046-100000@lxplus023.cern.ch>
On Oct 22, Diehard Duck inscribed on the eternal scroll:
> (Diehard Duck cowers in a puddle awaiting a good flaming)
Try posting your question to rec.food.drink.coffee: after all, many
programmers need coffee before writing their programs, so the question
is obviously on-topic there. Geddit? No, I thought not.
Bye. *plonk*
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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:46:25 +0100
From: "Diehard Duck" <diehard@nospam.userve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Webpage Passwords
Message-Id: <1003758390.12133.0.nnrp-14.9e98e2c7@news.demon.co.uk>
"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@mail.cern.ch> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.30.0110221516390.32046-100000@lxplus023.cern.ch...
> On Oct 22, Diehard Duck inscribed on the eternal scroll:
>
> > (Diehard Duck cowers in a puddle awaiting a good flaming)
>
> Try posting your question to rec.food.drink.coffee: after all, many
> programmers need coffee before writing their programs, so the question
> is obviously on-topic there. Geddit? No, I thought not.
>
Fucking newsgroups are full of tossers like you who would rather make
smart-arsed comments then add anything constructive and helpful.
I hope Scott found my input helpful and guided him in the right direction,
even if it did upset a few people because it was vaguely 'off topic'.
Perl is involved. So there.
Oh and by the way, I do 'Geddit'. But the point you're making is 'off
topic' so I haven't got time for it.
DD
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Date: 22 Oct 2001 13:58:17 GMT
From: Bernard El-Hagin <bernard.el-hagin@lido-tech.net>
Subject: Re: Webpage Passwords
Message-Id: <slrn9t8923.ec9.bernard.el-hagin@gdndev25.lido-tech>
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:46:25 +0100, Diehard Duck <diehard@nospam.userve.co.uk>
wrote:
> "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@mail.cern.ch> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.30.0110221516390.32046-100000@lxplus023.cern.ch...
>> On Oct 22, Diehard Duck inscribed on the eternal scroll:
>>
>> > (Diehard Duck cowers in a puddle awaiting a good flaming)
>>
>> Try posting your question to rec.food.drink.coffee: after all, many
>> programmers need coffee before writing their programs, so the question
>> is obviously on-topic there. Geddit? No, I thought not.
>>
>
> Fucking newsgroups are full of tossers like you who would rather make
> smart-arsed comments then add anything constructive and helpful.
>
> I hope Scott found my input helpful and guided him in the right direction,
> even if it did upset a few people because it was vaguely 'off topic'.
>
> Perl is involved. So there.
>
> Oh and by the way, I do 'Geddit'. But the point you're making is 'off
> topic' so I haven't got time for it.
He killfiled you, dude. He can't read what you just spewed there, geddit?
Cheers,
Bernard
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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 16:01:21 +0200
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_B=E4tzler?= <Thomas@Baetzler.de>
Subject: Re: Webpage Passwords
Message-Id: <9398ttcl8k1gumec1gc248t1ssavev9gsq@4ax.com>
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, "Diehard Duck" <diehard@nospam.userve.co.uk> wrote:
>Fucking newsgroups are full of tossers like you who would rather make
>smart-arsed comments then add anything constructive and helpful.
s/then/than/;
And do calm down, old chap.
>I hope Scott found my input helpful and guided him in the right direction,
Your "input" was not very helpful at all because you suggested a Really
Bad Thing. Allowing unprivileged programs to manipulate server config
files is never a good idea.
>even if it did upset a few people because it was vaguely 'off topic'.
Close, but no cigar. Nobody would've scolded you if you had told the OP
to read up on Apache mod_perl (or one of the mod_auth_* modules) and for
example DBI - for authorisation and database management, respectively.
No, you have to come forward with a sure-fire idea that allows the OP to
come up with a hundred creative ways to shoot himself into the foot.
>Perl is involved. So there.
Great argument. Suitable for just about anything - religious zealotry?
Got a King James bible in POD format! Perl is involved!
>Oh and by the way, I do 'Geddit'. But the point you're making is 'off
>topic' so I haven't got time for it.
But at least you had time to post your little "please put me in your
kill file" tirade.
Don't mention the war,
--
use strict;my($i,$t,@r)=(0,'5 -.@BHJPT4acd6e2hk2lmn2o4r2s3tuz',map{ord}
split//,unpack('u*','L#`T&)QD5#0`#!!`#%1D)#08`#P05!!(3``$$"``#"0L&``('.
'"`P<!`````0$`'));$t=~s/(\d)(.)/$2x$1/eg;map{$t.=substr$t,$i,1,''while
$_--;$i++}@r;print"$t\n";# Thomas@Baetzler.de - http://baetzler.de/perl
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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:01:33 +0100
From: "Diehard Duck" <diehard@nospam.userve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Webpage Passwords
Message-Id: <1003759338.12653.0.nnrp-14.9e98e2c7@news.demon.co.uk>
"Bernard El-Hagin" <bernard.el-hagin@lido-tech.net> wrote in message
news:slrn9t8923.ec9.bernard.el-hagin@gdndev25.lido-tech...
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:46:25 +0100, Diehard Duck
<diehard@nospam.userve.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@mail.cern.ch> wrote in message
> > news:Pine.LNX.4.30.0110221516390.32046-100000@lxplus023.cern.ch...
> >> On Oct 22, Diehard Duck inscribed on the eternal scroll:
> >>
> >> > (Diehard Duck cowers in a puddle awaiting a good flaming)
> >>
> >> Try posting your question to rec.food.drink.coffee: after all, many
> >> programmers need coffee before writing their programs, so the question
> >> is obviously on-topic there. Geddit? No, I thought not.
> >>
> >
> > Fucking newsgroups are full of tossers like you who would rather make
> > smart-arsed comments then add anything constructive and helpful.
> >
> > I hope Scott found my input helpful and guided him in the right
direction,
> > even if it did upset a few people because it was vaguely 'off topic'.
> >
> > Perl is involved. So there.
> >
> > Oh and by the way, I do 'Geddit'. But the point you're making is 'off
> > topic' so I haven't got time for it.
>
>
> He killfiled you, dude. He can't read what you just spewed there, geddit?
>
I give up. There is no future for newbies in newsgroups.
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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:09:17 +0100
From: "Diehard Duck" <diehard@nospam.userve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Webpage Passwords
Message-Id: <1003759759.12862.0.nnrp-14.9e98e2c7@news.demon.co.uk>
[snip]
>
> But at least you had time to post your little "please put me in your
> kill file" tirade.
I admit it. I'm an idiot. I don't know enough about Perl to be offering
assistance. It was simply the only idea I could think of.
I'll go back to my national radio presenting and leave programming to people
who know how.
DD
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Date: 6 Apr 2001 21:33:47 GMT (Last modified)
From: Perl-Users-Request@ruby.oce.orst.edu (Perl-Users-Digest Admin)
Subject: Digest Administrivia (Last modified: 6 Apr 01)
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