At 10:08 AM -0400 8/27/00, Steven Werby wrote:
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Zeffie wrote:> Mark, have you tried searching the archives? I believe you just need to add the > Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx} Steve I'm glad you like the archives so much but will you get off the "search the archives kick already.If you post a well-constructed, persuasive message to the list letting everyone know why suggesting that users should search the archives is bad, I'll consider it. Though there's a lot of noise in the archives, I find that if some thought is put into the search phrase relevant posts with good solutions can be found in under a couple of minutes.
I'd like to jump into this discussion, before it becomes an all out "flame-war"...
As a newbie to Linux and the Cobalt Raq3, I'd say that the list archives would be MUCH easier to search for someone such as myself IF everyone would properly TITLE their posts! When a subject begins to turn, often no one takes the time to alter the subject heading, such as:
Re: [cobalt-users] New topic (was Re: old discussion)For instance, lately there was some good information about DNS and restarting Apache, but the original post was about "Subdomains" and how to create them. Since I save interesting or potentially relevant posts to my local drive, it makes it even hard to search THAT (about 150 messages) when the subject lines don't identify the content that has drifted so severely, in some cases.
FWIW, The list archives are hard to search because of this issue, IMO. : )
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