On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 18:10:39 PM +1300, Michael Adams
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:48:45 +0100
> M. Fioretti wrote:
>
> Agree that we should change the subject of a thread when answering in
> principle with two cautions:
>
> 1. If a newbie waits for a reply to his email "... SUBJECT HERE ..." and
> misses a genuine reply because of it.
With all respect, this is an invented problem. First of all, you can
only do so much to fix stupidity and ignorance, at least through the
Internet, so at a certain point you must draw the line and say
"anything you do which is more stupid than this is not my problem
period". Secondly, the kind of person causing this problem doesn't
know what an email subject is, by definition, so why should they
notice that? And is the same kind of person which will open a message
saying "here is your free open office manual, just double-click on the
.exe attachment" from a random address. Just forget this kind of
concerns.
> But often it is easier and quicker to answer a "Does it work with
> Vista?" question with"Yes".
The problem discussed in this thread has nothing to do with how common
the actual question is or if it is already answered somewhere online
or if it is more efficient to just answer "yes", "please find the
answer at this URL" or any combination of the above.
> > My suggestion to ignore such messages (I violated it myself
> > one or two times two days ago, if you check the archives) should be
> > intended mainly as a way to push moderators to implement such
> > measures.
> Not sure what you are ignoring here.
My own suggestion
> But if you are sugesting ignoring newbie posts I disagree. It will
> just up the workload on others answering questions and make the
> issues less shallow (many eyes make all bugs shallow/questions
> simple)
Unless the questions are hidden so well (by not having a proper
subject) that it takes ten times more to answer them all.
I am not suggesting ignoring _newbie_ posts. I am suggesting ignoring
ALL posts without a proper subject, It's not the same thing. And I am
demanding that everybody who feels the need to do it anyway stops
making a disservice to everybody by not giving an informative subject
to the _answer_.
I really don't want to be offensive, but will you (not you personally,
Michael, everybody) please realize that you are keeping your own
workload much, much bigger than it could be by leaving things as they
are? Do you have some obscure need to keep it so big?
Marco
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Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how
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