** Tru64 User (Dienstag, 17. Juni 2003 15:43) > For a Gossip corner, we are OK....but for true > learning and solving of problems, we need solutions!
You just named one of the reasons I'm reading this list and why I'd like to have it like it is: Learning! My background in Linux is only a couple of years, starting with some distros (DLD, Slackware, Caldera, SuSE, Red Hat) and finally settled on Mandrake (5.3). Since this list was brought to life I am reading it and I have lots of messages stored away for further reading or applying the contents. While it may be nice to ask a question and receive an answer with the solution it's also interesting to read the in-betweens. A to list: "I have this question Q." B to A: Answer 1 C to A: Answer 2 D to A: Answer 3 A to D: "Answer 3 is good but B wrote "quote" D to B: "Yes, but B is wrong" A to B: "D said you're wrong" B to A: " No, I'm not! A to C: "I did what you advised but my foo did not compile" C to A: "Why not?" A to C: "I got this error." A to B: "C advised to do xxxx and I did it but my foo did not compile and I have this error" B to A: "It could be this and that." A to C: "B said it could be this and that." C to A: "Oh! Then it must be the harddrive. Do a blahblah and re-login." A to list: "Referring question Q. The solution is: Do a blahblah and re-login." Is that what you have in mind? If the whole thing had been gone public it would have been faster, easier for A and a learning experience for some of the lurkers who learned that foo would not compile in this condition and xxxx was not a solution as well as Answer 3 wasn't either. > While there might be 10 replies to one posting, only > one might be really relevant, the rest personal > emotions and such. Wouldn't you rather see a summary > that only includes the one entry that correctly > resolved the problem? I would. So instead of reading > 25 back-and-forth entries to find one solution, i > would rather have one post --then--its solution. OK, then go for an expert system, not a mailing list. A mailinglist - as far as I know them by some years - is mostly a forum for people interested in a topic or software or any issue. They don't want to post a question and get the solution and nothing else. They want to learn, give their opinions and even gather some self-esteem by answering other people's questions as soon as they have learned enough. The magic word is: Discussion. My $200,000.00 Life must be hard for people who regard their opinion not worthier than $0.02. wobo -- Public GnuPG key available at http://www.wolf-b.de/misc
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