Matthias,

I doubt everyone shares your opinion on this. SAS-L is a community as well as a technical resource, and from time to time people post things that aren't technical information -- that's just how a community works (especially right after a big event like SUGI). I for one would find it a much duller place without some of the kidding and joking around that goes on here. I don't know if you recieve each message individually, but if you do, you might want to consider switching to digest format so you can pick and choose the messages you want to read and ignore the others.

Just my opinion (with which some people will doubtless also disagree)

Sterling Price

-----Original Message----- From: Matthias Kehder [mailto:matthiaskehder@YAHOO.COM] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 5:25 PM Subject: Re: SAS-L Awards

Can people please refrain from posting there not very funny jokes to this list! There are enough messages everyday without them. and if you find it necessary to waste taxpayers money (epa.com) then please don't inform the world about it.

Regards,

Matthias

"David L. Cassell" <Cassell.David@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV> wrote:

dave@jadetek.com replied: > It looks like Greg is in the running to unseat Bill Viergever and David > Cassell for next year's poster of the year award Post early, post often > (and don't forget the all important "number of lines posted" category).

I've figured out the "number of lines posted" problem. I'm writing a Perl program. Every time Bill Viergever posts, the program will copy his post back to the list, and add the line "Ha-ha! Pretty Funny, Bill!" at the bottom, with some hard returns. Thus I will always have more lines posted than he will. And, to handle the "number of unquoted lines" problem, I will use the "/*" characters at the start of the line, instead of the ">" so that Joe's parsing program will mistakenly count them as unquoted lines. [I'm just kidding, Bill! :-]

> Good to see y'all at SUGI (and the SA! S-L BOF)

Ditto. It was nice to finally meet some of the people behind the messages.

David -- David Cassell, CSC Cassell.David@epa.gov Senior computing specialist mathematical statistician

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