[lug] Do you guys get random questions in email?

[D. Stimits]

Peter Hutnick wrote:
> I'm just looking for a sanity check here.
> 
> Every couple-few months or so I get some poorly articulated question in
> email from someone I never heard of (AFAIR never the same someone twice).
> 
> It weirds me out a little and I'm hoping that I'm not the only one.  The
> most recent example follows.  (Note that I don't know what that code is .
> .. . PHP?  I don't know PHP.)
> 
> As an aside, I propose that we (users of the internet) just do away with
> subject lines.  They agravate me far more than they provide any useful
> information.  "href add in"  What the hell does that mean?  It is
> meaningful once you have read the message, but by then what does it
> matter?  Arg!
> 
> -Peter
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Almost forgot, you could steer him towards w3c.org for html questions. 
Pointing the validator at a page often gives better clues:
  http://validator.w3.org/

D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi.com

PS: You are lucky that you are receiving questions instead of hundreds 
(literally) of Korean and Chinese and Taiwanese spams advertising in 
non-English everything from shoes and get-rich-quick-schemes to fresh 
fish catch of the day.