As I mentioned in first e-mail, I have no idea how could possibly anyone
misunderstood that content written in notes submission form is going to be
posted to php-general. (It clearly written in instruction and it is impossible
to misunderstood like this, if they can write question in English)
After reading so many questions in notes, I think there are 3 possibilities why
people are posting questions in notes
1) They just didn't read instruction. (May be too long for them?)
2) They just ignore instruction. (I guess(hope) most people is not ignoring)
3) They didn't read instruction and misunderstood notes form content is going to
be sent to php-general some how.
1) and 3) is most likely. This is my guess and I could easily wrong.
May be it's a good idea to ask people post questions in notes, why they did that
to get better figure.
I thought it might be a worth the efforts, see if you can cut down number of
questions in notes with simple(?) change.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] => something different or null.
(Alternatively, if email address is null or default, rejecting and displaying
shorter instruction again "This is NOT for asking questions. etc". Making
instruction shorter and using larger font size for "Not for asking questions"
may also work somewhat. IMHO.)
Yasuo Ohgaki
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hojtsy Gabor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP-DOC lista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 5:36 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DOC] Fw: PHP Manual note (Why [EMAIL PROTECTED] as
default e-mail adderss?)
> Now bring in the original person, who asked this...
>
> > [note added CC to php-notes]
> >
> > This has been discussed in the PHP-Notes list. In the
> > end it was decided that instead of getting a blank
> > email, we would opt for having it to default to
> > php-general. IMHO, we should just keep it blank and
> > reject submissions w/ invalid emails.
> >
> > When I made the "reject" option mechanism, an email
> > will be send to the user who posted the note, execpt
> > if it is one of the php lists. That email contains a
> > copy (almost verbatim) of the clear instructions in
> > the form used to post notes, which says (paraphrasing)
> > "no bugs, no support questions, etc., only
> > contributions/clarifications to the manual entries".
> >
> > If people post incorrect notes if, as James said it,
> > they do not (want to) read, or perhaps they do not
> > care to read, the instructions.
>
>
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