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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: LyX Forum?
From:       Manveru <manveru () manveru ! pl>
Date:       2009-03-31 14:45:48
Message-ID: 936b14d20903310745n1addd8d3w9cbe3feccb0120 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2009/3/31 Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>:
> On Tuesday 31 March 2009 06:14:54 am Manveru wrote:
>> 2009/3/31 Nikos Alexandris <nikos.alexandris@felis.uni-freiburg.de>:
>> > On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 23:05 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
>> >> On Monday 30 March 2009 08:38:21 pm Nikos Alexandris wrote:
>> >> > when it's not required. In addition, it's not possible to mark
>> >> > ML-threads as SOLVED. The latter is, in my humble opinion, a big
>> >> > drawback.
>> >>
>> >> When I ask a question and then either am giving an answer or figure one
>> >> out, I reply one more time to the thread and append <SOLVED> to the
>> >> subject. That's a pretty commonly known technique recommended by ESR:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#followup
>> >>
>> >> But all too few people choose to use it.
>> >
>> > Thanks Steve. I didn't know it works like that.
>> >
>> > Don't you really start a new thread by changing the subject? I this is
>> > the case, the information is still not organised/concentrated in one
>> > place as it should be.
>>
>> It should work in a way that Steve describe but often works like Nikos
>> said. I my case when you change the subject GMAIL treats that message
>> as new thread, that is way I do not like changing subjects.
>
> Either way, it shows up in search engine searches right next to the original.
> It's certainly better than not putting <SOLVED> at all.
>
> I've been teaching troubleshooting since 1990, and in those two decades things
> have changed a lot. Software has become more numerous, more complex, and not
> as well documented. Support has shifted from vendor based to community. More
> and more, I put part of an error message in a search engine to find out what
> others have done. Unfortunately, well over 95% of the responses are people
> asking questions, with almost no answers, and the answers that exist
> typically don't look any different, from   the search engine point of view,
> than the questions. It would sure make everyone's life easier of people put
> up a <SOLVED> post when they figured it out, to blaze a trail for those who
> follow via search engines.

Well Steve, I do not feel convinced to that. For me personally adding
<SOLVED> helps nothing in reading messages - this is not a request
tracking tool, but a discussion list. I am reading all new messages in
a thread and that is all.

It would not have matter to me wheter that <solved> is added or not to
subject, if GMAIL treats these in same thread, but don't. So for me
and probably many others using GMAIL it matters.

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Manveru
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