Re: remove blanks

On 27/09/2007, at 6:05 AM, Jonathan Mason wrote:

I don't understand where the outsourcing comes into this. The original post
mentions nothing about outsourcing, the first time it's mentioned is when
Jon Paris said that it "appears to be an outsourcing project". How?

Some of us see more than the question. Examine the signature on the original append:

Mahesh Pawar,
Mumbai,India,

Perhaps he is an employee of the company that owns the system rather than an outsource grunt but it seems more likely to be the reverse.

I realise it's not the "fault" of the questioner that his company has bid, and been accepted, for a job and then assigns unqualified personnel to the task but I for one won't answer any questions that "appear" to be from such sources. There are many indicators in the text that either makes it obvious or supplies enough oddities to raise suspicion. For me a false-positive is enough to trash the append. I can see from other appends that I'm not alone in this view.

I know I shouldn't, but I assumed it was coursework.

Even if it is course work the answer should not be provided as code. Name the op-codes or BIFs necessary. Explain the process but let them work the implementation out for themselves. How else will they learn? People THINK they learn by copying but the reality is they don't UNDERSTAND.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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