I've noticed on the list my mailings don't seem to parse correctly. I don't know why that is, but I can't blame you for not being tempted to wade through them. I wouldn't be either. If anyone can tall me how to solve this, I'd appreciate it.<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Jeff<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> --- On Wed 11/08, lanas < <a title="Linkification: mailto:lanas@securenet.net" href="mailto:lanas@securenet.net" class="linkification-ext">lanas@securenet.net</a> > wrote:<br /><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid orange; padding-left: 7px; margin-left: 7px;"><b>From: </b>lanas [mailto: <a title="Linkification: mailto:lanas@securenet.net" href="mailto:lanas@securenet.net" class="linkification-ext">lanas@securenet.net</a>]<br /><b>To: </b><a title="Linkification: mailto:beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org" href="mailto:beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org" class="linkification-ext">beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org</a><br /><b>Date: </b>Wed, 8 Nov 2006 07:27:57
-0500<br /><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Newbies] Beginners questions<br /><br />Le Lundi 6 Novembre 2006 18:09, Jeff a écrit :<br />> Hello group!I'm hoping that this beginners list is a good place for a<br />> beginner to get answers to... well, beginner's questions. And so, with that<br />> in mind, I'll ask a few questions. But first, experience has taught me that<br />> I should be a little more clear in what I'm looking for as an answer.<br />> Imagine a total newbie to computers asked a group of experts the question<br />> "How do I run a program under windows?". One member of the group<br />> decided to respond by handing him a 400 page technical manual on windows<br />> and telling him that everything he wants to know is in there. Upon seeing<br />> that the rest of the group decides that his question has been answered and<br />> sees no need to offer additional assistance. This newbie's question wasn't<br />> actually answered by
the group, ultimately what they did was say "ask<br />> the manual". The manual naturally can't hear him so it can't directly<br />> respond to his question, he has to start searching it. After skimming a<br />> bunch of pages and not seeing what he's looking for, (or anything he<br />> understands), he looks in the index. It isn't there. He looks in the table<br />> of contents to see a chapter called "Getting started with<br />> windows". Thinking that looks like what he needs, he flips to it and<br />> it starts out by telling him that the first thing he needs to do is install<br />> windows. Ok, so he looks for this Windows disk. <br /><br />[snip]<br /><br />For what it's worth, your message appeared as a large chunck of dense text <br />(worse than quoted above) without any paragraphs, filling the windows' text <br />screen like a wall brick.<br /><br />I must be frank and I must say that it was not tempting to wade through
and <br />read it.<br /><br />This being said, no, I can't answer your question ;-)<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Al<br />_______________________________________________<br />Beginners mailing list<br /><a title="Linkification: mailto:Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org" href="mailto:Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org" class="linkification-ext">Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org</a><br /><a title="Linkification: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners" href="http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners" class="linkification-ext">http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners</a><br /></blockquote><p><hr><font size=2 face=verdana><span style='font-weight:bold'>No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding.</span><br>Make My Way your home on the Web - <a href=http://www.myway.com target=_blank>http://www.myway.com</a></font></b>