One of the mailing lists I am on has a tip harvester.
You start a tip <tip> and end it </tip> and it gets culled and posted.
This could be beneficial when it comes to looking up info, or things
that are hard to do.
I am pretty sure that one can modify it so that it doesn't use mark-up
style brackets.
example:
tip::start {author:dangergelder; subject: linux newbies;}
Linux newbies need to be seen, but not heard.
tip::end
This also makes for an interesting comodity; people who ask too many
questions or favours need to maintain a high tip to posting ratio.
Which by that standard, has me owing about 235 tips.
Samir
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