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<TITLE>The Answer Guy 31: AnswerGUY? Who is Heather?</TITLE>
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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H1 align="center"><A NAME="answer">
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<img src="../gx/dennis/qbubble.gif" alt="" border="0" align="middle">
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<a href="./index.html">The Answer Guy</a>
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<img src="../gx/dennis/bbubble.gif" alt="" border="0" align="middle">
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</A></H1> <BR>
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<H4 align="center">By James T. Dennis,
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<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com">linux-questions-only@ssc.com</a><BR>
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Starshine Technical Services,
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<A HREF="http://www.starshine.org/">http://www.starshine.org/</A> </H4>
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<p><hr><p>
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<H3><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" alt="(?)" width="50" height="28"
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align="left" border="0">AnswerGUY? Who is Heather?</H3>
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<p><strong>From Thomas L. Gossard on Fri, 03 Jul 1998
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Answerguy,
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<br><br>
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Forgive me if I'm about to insult you. All the replies I've read
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seem to be answered by Heather. Is Heather not a girls name? If
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so, why is this column called the answerGUY, not person or girl?
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<br><br>
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Tom Gossard
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<blockquote><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" alt="(!)" width="50" height="28"
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align="left" border="0">
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Heather is my wife. She usually doesn't answer any
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of the questions (though sometimes she helps --- she's
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been using Unix longer than I have --- and she's a professional
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sysadmin).
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<br><br>
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However, Heather does convert my mail into HTML and she
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does all the links and graphics (I just answer the e-mail,
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do the web research and find URL's to point my correspondents
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at for more information).
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<br><br>
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As for why this is called the "Answer Guy" --- I just volunteered
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to help out with the occasional stray technical question that
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I knew would find it's way to SSC when they took over the
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editorial duties of the Linux Gazette from John Fisk (its
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creator). Marjorie Richardson and her crew decided to post
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my answers and picked the name. I'd wanted to start doing the
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HTML (at least to wrap the URL's in anchor tags) since I noticed
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that these were going up --- but I never had the time.
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<br><br>
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Finally Heather stepped in, pulled down a couple of mail to
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HTML filters (like MHOnArc, hypermail, and babymail) and
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played with them --- tweaking one of them until it suited
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her tastes in HTML and my style of e-mail (text). She
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still hand massages the messages for a bit, too.
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<br><br>
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The other advantage to this way of doing it is that I don't
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see the whole column going up as one big page --- it's broken
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into lots of separate pages, like HTML is meant to be. This
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is hopefully going to help quite a bit in my future since I
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was starting to hit my own column every time I did a Yahoo
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search --- usually those were false hits because I'm usually
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trying to find "something for Linux" (and I'd find sets of
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keywords in one LG article -- that were in no way related
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to one another in the article).
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<br><br>
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So, hopefully the new format will be more "search engine
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friendly" (for everyone).
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<H3><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" alt="(?)" width="50" height="28"
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align="left" border="0">Heather replied too.</H3>
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<p><strong>From Tom Grossard on Mon, 6 Jul 1998
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in the </strong>
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<a href="news:comp.unix.questions">comp.unix.questions</a>
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<strong>newsgroup
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Heather,
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Thank you for the reply. I hope I wasn't rude in my question, just nosey.
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Thank you
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<br>Tom
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Thomas L. Gossard
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<blockquote><img src="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" alt=":D" width="50" height="28"
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No problem, really. Glad we could clarify.
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Oh yeah, I'd like to add for our lynx-using readers, or those reading
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the text Whole Damn Thing, I plan to improve the textmode result. But
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not this time, I just started a new job (still sysadmin'ing) and
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didn't have time.
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<br><br>
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For web visitors, the interesting parts:
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<br><em>I ate the fortune cookie first, then read what Jim Dennis copied me on:</em>
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<br><font color="navy"><em>
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However, Heather does convert my mail into HTML and she
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does all the links and graphics (I just answer the e-mail,
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do the web research and find URL's to point my correspondents
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at for more information).
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</em></font><br><br>
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The confusion probably arises from the one message (Love the New Look!!!,
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<A HREF="http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue30/tag_newlook.html"
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>http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue30/tag_newlook.html</A>)
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where I answered someone who loves the new format... since I am responsible
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for formatting... and linked my name there so respondents on that question
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could reply to me instead.
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<br><br>
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Jim answers all the Linux questions; in the original mail to the querent,
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he has his Answer Guy .sig, but the dressed up column doesn't need that also,
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so it is trimmed for clarity. Most querent's .sigs are trimmed to enhance
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their privacy. So seeing most messages .sig-less might be affecting you.
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"just answer and research" is plenty, but he loves to do it, and every new
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discovery could add to his book, so he plays it down. I don't think the
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column would be nearly as good if our roles were reversed :)
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<br><br>
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<font color="navy"><em>
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Finally Heather stepped in, pulled down a couple of mail to
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HTML filters (like MHOnArc, hypermail, and babymail) and
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played with them --- tweaking one of them until it suited
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her tastes in HTML and my style of e-mail (text). She
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still hand massages the messages for a bit, too.
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</em></font><br><br>
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I merged some perl fragments, and added some of my own, to a script I use
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to preprocess the month's load of Answers. However, I also
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<strong>read</strong> his messages, and try to maintain the original
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"look and feel" of Jim's reply.
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<br><br>
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Sometimes this means a list type or a blockquote where my script doesn't
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know any better. Each month I improve it but I will probably never trust
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it to do the whole job ... cleaning .sigs for privacy, clearing up levels
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of indirection when Jim draws in a message from mailing lists, and posting a
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thread as one file are specific examples.
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<br><br>
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There is also a little bit extra that I add. Most of the URL's I add
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after-the-fact are things that aren't really special overall (such as
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hotlinking vendor names) so someone reading the plaintext Whole Damn Thing
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version isn't really missing anything; they are simply seeing the reply
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pretty much as Jim sent it. (It's not exactly as Jim sent it -- it's the
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posted column run through lynx.) If I actually say anything that Jim didn't,
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it is <em>emphasized</em> and in brackets [] , as I have been taught editors'
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comments should be. I haven't seen Jim use brackets, except in example code.
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
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>Copyright ©</a> 1998, James T. Dennis <BR>
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Published in <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 31 August 1998</H5>
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