From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 0:21: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.perimeter.co.za (dns.perimeter.co.za [196.25.164.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E0A537B419 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 00:20:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from patrick (loopback.mipjhb [209.212.102.245] (may be forged)) by dns.perimeter.co.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g2D8Kf571102; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:20:42 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from bsd@perimeter.co.za) Message-ID: <00d201c1ca68$ea230e20$b50d030a@patrick> From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: "Cliff Sarginson" , References: <20020311175440.GD721@hades.hell.gr> <20020311195526.GB26530@moo.holy.cow> <20020311214445.GA2388@hades.hell.gr> <20020312145032.GE1577@raggedclown.net> Subject: Re: Archives of the list and SOLVED: followups Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:27:27 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cliff Sarginson" > 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. > I am inclined to support this idea, though I too have probably been guilty of failing to post follow-ups. My only comment would be to APPEND, rather than PREPEND, the word "SOLVED" as this makes it easy to sort mails in the inbox by subject line. Regards, Patrick O'Reilly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message