From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 6:59:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-11.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 131C537BD8E for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 06:51:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-11.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16knbk-000DdB-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:50:33 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 2E12113040 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:50:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id C031822597; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:50:32 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:50:32 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Archives of the list and SOLVED: followups Message-ID: <20020312145032.GE1577@raggedclown.net> References: <20020311175440.GD721@hades.hell.gr> <20020311195526.GB26530@moo.holy.cow> <20020311214445.GA2388@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020311214445.GA2388@hades.hell.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:44:45PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-03-11 14:55, parv wrote: > > in message <20020311175440.GD721@hades.hell.gr>, > > wrote Giorgos Keramidas thusly... > > > > > > What do you all think of making it a habbit to followup to posts > > > that do indeed contain the answer with a post whose subject has > > > "SOLVED: " prepended? > > > > that is good only if there are no further replies to the message > > marked "solved". otherwise the problem of archives search for > > relevant messages remain the same. > > Or if the original poster makes a summary of some sort, and posts at the > end of it all what solutions she tried, and which way the problem was > solved. But I'm probably expecting too much here... > > Thanks for commenting, > I think the principle of it is excellent, but whether people will do it is another question. I do find it a bit of a pain when a question comes up, and other people, including myself, send an answer, or an idea, and you never hear if that resolved it or not. I think even if the problem is solved because the asker just made a typo or something, it is good not to leave the question dangling. Occasionally I ask questions that get no answers :(, but if I solve it I *try* to remember to post a reply to my own message to say it is solved. The only way for such a habit to become engrained is for people to start doing it and to have it suggested in the guidelines. Then when new people join the list they may see a "convention" in place and will follow it. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message