[snip] What is the point of taking this attitude with a poster who (I'm guessing from his name) is a non-native English speaker? He asks a perfectly polite, intelligible and on-topic question. Even if he isn't a good proportion of posters are non-native speakers, and I imagine they find this kind of thing a little intimidating. [/snip] Yes, I suppose your are correct. His english was remarkably well written so I did not suspect that he was foreign and I didn't even look at the e-mail address for the reply. The point is this, as more and more folks take to mailing lists such as this there are good practices and bad practices. We all need to learn good practices, like avoiding top-posting. You have exercized your right to point out what may be a bad practice, me answering the OP in a sarcastic tone is a bad thing. You taking me on for same is a bad thing, especially when you do not mark the subject as now being off topic, such as I have done. How long have you been mailing to mailing lists? I suppose that the good old days are long gone. The ones where newbies were whipped into shape with just a few keystrokes. I guess we need to be more politically correct and sensitive to the needs of others now. In the spirit of this I will refrain from answering the "is it possible" questions. Heck I may not answer any others either as my old school cumrudgeonly attitude may be too much for others, especially those folks who do not hail from english speaking countries. My apologies to any and all who were offended by my curt response. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
