From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 10:51:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from foo31-146.visit.se (foo31-146.visit.se [62.119.31.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BADC037B445 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:51:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from martin@localhost) by foo31-146.visit.se (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2CIoZB01541 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:50:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from martin) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:50:35 +0100 From: Martin Karlsson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Archives of the list and SOLVED: followups Message-ID: <20020312185034.GA842@foo31-146.visit.se> Mail-Followup-To: Martin Karlsson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020311175440.GD721@hades.hell.gr> <20020311195526.GB26530@moo.holy.cow> <20020311214445.GA2388@hades.hell.gr> <20020312145032.GE1577@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020312145032.GE1577@raggedclown.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-PGP-Keyid: 0x9C924660 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5970 BE22 2C33 4D8F 53FD 7E34 66FF 9332 9C92 4660 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 Tue Mar 12, 2002 at 03:50:32PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > 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. Well said. [...SNIP...] > 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. Perhaps this is something which could be added to Greg Lehey's 'How to get the best results...'? -- Martin Karlsson I welcome mail encrypted with PGP/GPG. See headers for my public key. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message