Repeat questions and a suggestion

[Jeff Vian]

melgil88 wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 12:02, Scot L. Harris wrote:
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>>Glad you liked the stats.  :)  I wonder if the search feature goes
>>through just the body of the message and not the subject lines?
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>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.
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>>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.  
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>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.
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Many more YEAs from me.   Anything that makes searching easier, and that 
will reduce list traffic is better.