[Mpls-pm] Perl Socket programming problem with Windows

[Ian Malpass]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 Paul.Krcma at wellsfargo.com wrote:

> You know what? I gave up on user group email lists along time ago,
> because of replies like your's.

Why? So Mark's reply wasn't overly helpful. Troy chipped in later with 
more concrete help (Net::Server and other CPAN goodness being excellent 
suggestions for saving youself the hassle of reinventing the wheel).

> And here I was, thinking this email group would be professional.

"Professional" as in "sending a rather stroppy response to a post on a 
publicly archived mailing list using your corporate email address 
professional"?

But aside from that, "Minneapolis Perl Mongers is a user group for anyone 
interested in the Perl programming language"[0]. No-one ever said anything 
about professional. You'll get some helpful responses, and some less 
helpful ones. When asking for free help, you run the risk of getting what 
you paid for. Frustrating, I know, especially when mired in complex 
debugging.

You did post a lot of code, which is rather too much to take in without a 
lot of effort. Perhaps if you cut it down to a smaller test case it might 
be easier for people to grasp and debug. Help us to help you, etc.

> I just subscribed to this group. It's time to unsubscribe.

Perhaps. You came, you asked a question, you got an answer you didn't 
like. Feel free to throw your toys out of your stroller. Or you could stay 
and contribute and help make the group better. Everyone has their off 
days, and it would be a shame to lose a local perlmonger because of one 
post.

We reserve the right to reference Monty Python sometimes though.

Ian

[0] <http://minneapolis.pm.org/>

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