On Sat, 30 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Cliff Pratt enkiduonthenet@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Adding the [SOLVED] Tag to break threads -- multiple factors
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Jake Shipton crazylinuxnerd@gmx.com wrote:
On 07/29/2011 12:48 PM, Thomas Harold wrote:
Heck, I'd settle for people coming back to a "problem / issue" thread and updating on how or what the actual problem was or what they did to get the thing to work properly.
So often you'll see a thread talking about trying X, Y & Z, then the person having the problem never responds back as to whether X, Y or Z worked. Which is especially troublesome a year or two later when you're digging through threads in GMane trying to find a solution to a particular issue.
(Pet peeve of the day -- dead end threads on mail lists.)
Couldn't Agree more.
Sheesh! I'm sorry that my action of adding [Solved] to the subject has stirred up such a can of worms. I initially thought that the person who contacted me off-line was being prissy. I can now see that strong opinions are held on both sides of the debate, but it is definitely off-topic, I believe (subject to correction by the owners of the list, of course). Please can we drop it?
Of course you can - just tag it as [SOLVED] - LOL! ;)
Keith
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