Greg Donald wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:15:37 +0000, Rory Browne <rory.browne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think sending it to the list every so often, via cron isn't the best
way to handle it. I've read it once, I don't see the point in getting
it again. Perhaps, is the list admins were willing, it could be set up
to be sent to all newbies, as part of the subscription process. To
ensure that it is read by all newbies, they'd have to answer certain
questions in the body of the confirmation email? The problem of
newbies not knowing they are newbies, isn't overcome by cron.
That doesn't seem like a good idea to me. I wouldn't want to take a
test just because I need to resubscribe after vacation, or a change of
email address. Besides that, if the test is unmonitored, well..
anyway.
agreed - testing is futile, let the test be simply sending an email
thats 'worth' answering (according to the 'guidelines').
The Perl solution many years ago was to make a newbie list. My local
Linux user group solution last year was to make a newbie list.
i.e. segregate the 'levels' of knowledge. -100.
you'll just end up with the blind leading the blind, leads to more crap PHP
programmers, leads to php's reputation being negatively compounded, leads
to lower (average) paid jobs in phpland. I vote we keep the noobs close :-)
or will all you advanced guys/girls spend countless hours repeatedly
asking people to post code, use print_r()/var_dump() etc... without so much as
halfbaked challenge in sight? me neither ;-)
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