David Abrahams wrote: Brian Allison [1]<brian@dtmr.com> writes: Orjan Westin wrote: Paul Giaccone wrote: Some comments from a boost newbie/C++ old hand here. Contrary to what some have said, Boost *does* need to be sold. Well, that statement can mean a lot of things, but I believe you mean that it is not, as currently presented, attractive to new-comers. You know, the old trick with the leading >s that shows how many levels of reply are in play? [2]http://www.boost.org/more/discussion_policy.htm#effective Thanks, Sorry, I think I was overly clever with my client, and it didn't show me the fruits of my cleverness. I think I've figured out where it was though, so I shouldn't be doing that again. (Though this message should [dis]prove my theory...) BTW - some of us are in a situation where we can only do e-mail from our desks and not read web pages. I'd have to copy the URL by hand, walk to another room and then enter it into a web browser on a machine not connected to our internal web. Barbaric, but true. :/ *shrug* References 1. mailto:brian@dtmr.com 2. http://www.boost.org/more/discussion_policy.htm#effective