This all sounds very good -- makes me want to start with the patch right away ;)

Seriously, if that's how things are being handled on p5p in everyday real life situations, I'm positively impressed.

What I meant was: we're all human, and even for the most technically minded of us it's not always easy to keep those human factors entirely out of our interactions and judgements. More specifcally, I'd think it's all too natural to apply a positive bias to people of whom we already know their merits, and a somewhat more critical or don't-care attitude towards someone we don't know yet.

(There isn't really anything wrong with that - it's just how the world is.  This kind of "pre-judging" even makes sense from an information processing point of view: our brain has less extra work to do, if we don't have to fully re-evaluate the world around us every time anew...)

Well, before this gets entirely off-topic, I'll just stop here :)

Lastly: there arent that many Win32 devlopers active on p5p, since you apparently are one I reckon youd find yourself a lot more welcome than you realize.

Maybe I should mention I'm not really a Win32 developer. I only occasionally develop for Windows, i.e. when it's required for some project at work.  Actually, my friends would rather describe me as a girl with a strange love for commandlines, text interfaces, and such... in short, the traditional unix way. I'm not religous about it, though - just prefer it. And my programming experience is distributed accordingly.