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Wouldn't such checking put additional strain on the server and slow everything down?

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Re: Re: Suggest adding code tags if perlish text found in post.
by EvdB (Deacon) on Jun 13, 2003 at 06:47 UTC
    Yes, but if the strain imposed at the posting reduces later editing then on the whole it would be worth it. In terms of saving te editors time and educating users I wolud prefer the server to do more work and the humans to do less.

    --tidiness is the memory loss of environmental mnemonics

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Re^2: Suggest adding code tags if perlish text found in post.
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jun 16, 2003 at 14:08 UTC
    Please don't be one of the people who invoke this argument for every new suggestion - often (or so is my impression) without even vaguely considering how it would affect the actual infrastructure.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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      I am certainly not against improvements, but now that PM has become much more responsive, I would hate to see it slow down to a crawl again because of "improvements". Of course the Gods or pmdev-people will take good care of that aspect, but still I found it useful to express my concerns.

      Sorry if that came out wrong.

      CountZero

      "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

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