Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 02:09:24 +0100 From: Carsten Zimmermann <cz@aegisnet.biz> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: making answers on questions more easily to lookup Message-ID: <20041207010924.GD1224@galadriel.bbk.hh.aegisnet.de> In-Reply-To: <41B4300A.2050206@FreeBSD.org> References: <41B4300A.2050206@FreeBSD.org>
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Hello Remko - while your idea sounds like being the cure for hideous google walkabouts in search for the missing follow-up in xy's mailinglist archive, I don't think it's practical managable. Problem is, threads are rarely declared `closed'. Potientially, there's always a new post waiting aroung the corner, messing up the summary. Besides: to whom should it be to post the summary? I think everyone who uses forums and mailinglists frequently knows about how good it is to share one's solution once he/she got it done the right way. But in contrast, there are many who subcribe to mailinglists only if there's an urgent issue (I used to be one of them...). I don't think you can make them sum up the thread they initiated. And it's way too much work for moderators (if any!) to do the job. Nevertheless, it would be great - that's right. Do you have any special mechanism in mind? Carsten Am Mon Dec 06, 2004 at 11:1018AM +0100 schrieb Remko Lodder: > Hi, > > I read an email from Mark Linimon today state-ing that there > are perhaps searches on the site that give back 20 results and > where only one or tweo answers are provided. > I also follow the sunmanagers mailinglist for my employer and it > seems to me that they do a good job in posting a Summery to the > list where one could easily find the answer. > > Although the sunmanager list is a bit different for only > having questions (one) and a summery, we perhaps can > introduce it to some lists. > > Subject: I have a SATA harddisk, is <company name and model > number> supported? > Subject: re: I have a Sata (etc) > Subject: Summary: I have a SATA harddisk (etc) > > where the last post has the information that someone requires > when having the same question. > > Do we think that is possible? or any ideas? > (It was just a thought that popped up). > > -- > Kind regards, > > Remko Lodder > FreeBSD (Dutch) Documentation Team > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Carsten Zimmermann mailto:cz@aegisnet.biz Tel.: +49-(0)40-98760543 Aegis:Net IT-Dienstleistungen Postfach 620371 22403 Hamburg http://www.aegisnet.biz Info: +49-(0)700-AEGISNET Fax: +49-(0)40-98760547
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