Just as much as nobody is "forcing" you to only refer to yourself by means of a pseudonym and not letting anyone know your real given name and family name - a habit which someone also finds to be ridiculous: it's all a matter of personal freedom. Anyway: ++ because what you claim is definitely true: well, to some extent. In fact I often can't cast what I want to say in "IPB form" (as in this very post - except that I did it on purpose) in a reasonably simple manner. And then I both delete the incipit and strike the part of the signature it refers to: FWIW I consider it a mental exercise, to find a way to begin any speech that way, and a funny one. Fun is good, ain't it? But seriously: do you find it that annoying?!? I'm literally astonished that some people do. (Others privately wrote me to tell me they share the fun instead.) Somebody, you perhaps, told me he would ignore me by means of a css setting: which somehow saddens me if that particular person is a knowledgeable monk - like you. But I still can't understand, to the best of my efforts: it's a matter of three damned words; it takes such a negligible fraction of time to read them that one doesn't even realize...

Why can't I have my little bit of cranky trademark behaviour? Because I'm only a mediocre Perl programmer? I'm beginnig to think that if I were considered a Perl Guru then these "problems" wouldn't arise...

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If you can't understand the incipit, then please check the IPB Campaign.

In reply to Re^2: Most printer friendly version of the documentation? by blazar
in thread Most printer friendly version of the documentation? by blazar

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