Repeat questions and a suggestion
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Sun Jun 6 19:22:22 UTC 2004
melgil88 wrote:
>On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 12:02, Scot L. Harris wrote:
>
>
>>Glad you liked the stats. :) I wonder if the search feature goes
>>through just the body of the message and not the subject lines?
>>
>>
>:snip:
>
>
snip
>I'm glad you think the idea is good. I think the stats list you did was
>great, and is a real help for those hot things that people may want to
>look for. Much easier than scrolling through a whole month's worth of
>posts which runs in the 1000's. That's what I think is the thing with
>such an active list like this...digging can take up alot of time, and
>when you need to use your machine and it's out of whack, you need a way
>to find the answer fast.
>
>:snip:
>
>
>
>>I think that would be very useful. A weekly message with a list of
>>common problems and solutions would IMHO help a lot of people. I think
>>it should include a section on what to do before posting a question (ie.
>>check log files, google) and how to ask a question (include version
>>info, hardware info, exact error message, how to reproduce, etc). Many
>>questions get posted with not much more than "help!" in the message.
>>
>>
>
>Thanks for your suggestions! I'm drafting something now and if I get
>more 'yea's' from the list, I'll post it for folks here to critique.
>I've included your tips, suggesting people include descriptive subject
>titles and hardware/software info. I've tried to keep it very short,
>however, with the ugliest things at the top so fixes are easy to find.
>
>
>
>
Many more YEAs from me. Anything that makes searching easier, and that
will reduce list traffic is better.
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list