On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 14:55 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Somebody-whom-I-don't-want-to-pick-on-in-particular writes: > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:00:34PM -0500, (Some) Poor Fellow > wrote: > > > Thanks > > > > please don't > > (1) reply to list-posts off-list: send them to the list; > > (2) top-post > > Given the recent surge in non-traditional list admins (ie, folks > without a Unix or mail admin background), I feel this is excessively > curt.
Stephen, with all due respect for the work you put into your post, I think it goes a bit overboard in the other direction. If I can pose a question in 6 or 7 lines of text, do I really need to read a couple of hundred lines of instruction? - or dig through a FAQ and write a critique of it - just to get a simple answer? I recently posted a question to this list in about 7 lines inquiring as to what file is the source document in a Mailman Pipermail archive. I asked on the list precisely _because_ I didn't want to spend the time searching through FAQs and other documentation for a simple answer to a simple question. Mark kindly answered my question within a few minutes with two lines - one with the name of the file in question and the second with the URL of a wiki entry discussing the matter in some detail (thank you, Mark!). I think your post has some good ideas, but needs a generous application of the KISS principle :-) -- Lindsay Haisley | "Never expect the people who caused a problem FMP Computer Services | to solve it." - Albert Einstein 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com | ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
