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.

Thanks,
Jeff




--- On Wed 11/08, lanas < lanas@securenet.net > wrote:
From: lanas [mailto: lanas@securenet.net]
To: beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 07:27:57 -0500
Subject: Re: [Newbies] Beginners questions

Le Lundi 6 Novembre 2006 18:09, Jeff a ??crit? :
> Hello group!I'm hoping that this beginners list is a good place for a
> beginner to get answers to... well, beginner's questions. And so, with that
> in mind, I'll ask a few questions. But first, experience has taught me that
> I should be a little more clear in what I'm looking for as an answer.
> Imagine a total newbie to computers asked a group of experts the question
> "How do I run a program under windows?". One member of the group
> decided to respond by handing him a 400 page technical manual on windows
> and telling him that everything he wants to know is in there. Upon seeing
> that the rest of the group decides that his question has been answered and
> sees no need to offer additional assistance. This newbie's question wasn't
> actually answered by the group, ultimately what they did was say "ask
> the manual". The manual naturally can't hear him so it can't directly
> respond to his question, he has to start searching it. After skimming a
> bunch of pages and not seeing what he's looking for, (or anything he
> understands), he looks in the index. It isn't there. He looks in the table
> of contents to see a chapter called "Getting started with
> windows". Thinking that looks like what he needs, he flips to it and
> it starts out by telling him that the first thing he needs to do is install
> windows. Ok, so he looks for this Windows disk.

[snip]

For what it's worth, your message appeared as a large chunck of dense text
(worse than quoted above) without any paragraphs, filling the windows' text
screen like a wall brick.

I must be frank and I must say that it was not tempting to wade through and
read it.

This being said, no, I can't answer your question ;-)

Cheers,
Al
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