[CentOS] Adding the [SOLVED] Tag to break threads -- multiple factors

Keith Roberts keith at karsites.net
Sat Jul 30 09:09:22 UTC 2011


On Sat, 30 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: Cliff Pratt <enkiduonthenet at 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 at 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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