You shifted to a more generic case about letting others know even if not applicable to the OP. My remarks are in the context of that shift. If someone wants to post information for others then that's fine, but they should indicate that that is what they are doing. That's the courteous thing to do for OP, who will not be able to use the information being provided. It's a way of saying "yes, I read your post and understand your situation". Without that it looks like you either didn't read the post or are talking down to the OP. Does that make sense?

Regarding hiding behind words. I was speaking about the more general case you brought up. That in this case I am part of that general case goes without saying. In essence I was trying to say that everyone should try and take the OP's feelings into consideration, whoever that OP is.

"Experienced" as in I have been on here long enough to know about Yes, even you can use CPAN. For new users maybe assuming they do not know about it is okay but for long time (i.e. experienced) users it makes more sense to take the opposite approach.

Looking back I probably did not explain myself very well and for that I apologize.

P.S. Mail::Sender is not a core module (or if it is it's not in the ActivePerl distribution I am using).

P.S.S. Would that be a European or African Swallow egg? ^_^

Elda Taluta; Sarks Sark; Ark Arks

In reply to Re^8: Problems sending an email attachment using Net::SMTP by Argel
in thread Problems sending an email attachment using Net::SMTP by Argel

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