Helpful signatures?

[Jim Cornette]

James Wilkinson wrote:

>Jonathan Rawle wrote:
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>>Also, I do wish people would stop replying to messages telling people to
>>search the archive rather than answering questions. In the time you've
>>written than, you could in many cases answer the question, and you're
>>generating just as many messages to the groups with the negative reply. If
>>you don't want to answer, write nothing.
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This is a very true statement. I think that unless the search the 
archives postings were removed from the list, the relevent hits would be 
lower than the actual clues, fixes or helpful data.

>If this is supposed to be a community-supported distribution, and this
>list is one of the visible signs of community ...
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>.... what can we do to make the archive and the other resources more
>visible?
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I think the link on the bottom of each messages should actually state 
where to find previously posted message online.

>I know we have the "To unsubscribe" link at the bottom, but people
>obviously aren't finding the archives. Would there be any mileage in
>those that conveniently can [1] changing their signatures for this list
>to point at the relevant resources? Maybe something like this?
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I'll have to search the archives for "search the archives" sometime for 
a test.

Jim

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