Marc Grober <[email protected]> writes: > Frankly listservs make very poor knowledge bases for the obvious > reasons, hence the efforts by some in other communities to distill the > problem/resolution couplet into dynamic online docs where a user will > find current comprehensive succinct and useful information.
Such distilled couplets are a great resource provided they're kept up to date--which in my experience they often aren't. Or even, somebody sees such a couplet, but dated several years ago, and then posts to a mailing list to make sure it's still correct: you get the worst of both worlds. So yes, mailing lists do make poor knowledge bases--but then, they're not meant to be knowledge bases (or, for that matter, a substitute from reading actual documentation). Knowledge bases make poor mailing lists, too. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
