Thomas Green

Dear Mark,

First things first: not only are you an excellent programmer and
astonishingly generous in allowing people to use your work for free and
helping them to get it going, but also - and this is what really stunned
me - you have helped some person (Jenny Amparo) who was obviously
completely out of her depth and had turned to you just for help in
making anything work at all on her site. Your reply gave no hint that
she could have read the manual, or asked someone - almost anyone - else:
polite, clear, pertinent, and kind. I'm not quite sure what kind of
prize you deserve, but I hope you get it. You have set me new standards.

Now, please may I use your excellent RSS Parser on sites I build for
other people. I understand that you would like to be linked and that I
must explain that the code is free, which of course I will do. I wish to
use it to display a feed from Google Calendar in a form that is embedded
on the page, without any Google-trappings. It seems to be working so
far, thanks to your hard work.

If there is anything else you would like me to do, please do say. And if
you have any words of wisdom to impart, I shall listen attentively.

Yours with admiration for both technical prowess and civic values,

Thomas Green