Re: Marking Title Messages, (was: Re: New User Comments)

[Birgitt Funk <birgitt@minivend.com>]

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 Thompson-Jordan wrote:
 
 > A while back I proposed marking the title of messages so that the answers
 > to questions were easy to find when reading the list, searching the
 > archive and by the documentation people. A solution was indicated by
 > adding something like "(Solved)" to the end of the subject line. This fell
 > apart quickly, I think, because a people would respond with what they
 > thought was the answer, but it was not, so "(Not Solved)" would get added
 > and then it would devolve into a big mess.
 > 
 > So here is another proposal, with an addition to help with what Barry
 > mentioned. ONLY the person who asked the question should mark a question
 > as answered with "(Solved)". So if you get an answer to your question,
 > post the answer with "(Solved)" appended to the subject line.
 > 
 > For questions that get no answer, how about if you resubmit them with
 > "(Resubmitted: No Answer)" or something like that appended to the subject
 > line. Then those who didn't know the answer the first time, when they see
 > the question resubmitted, will (in theory) suggest any ideas they might
 > have, where to look, or ways to approach solving it. I guess you could
 > then go to "(Resubmitted: Still No Answer)" for the third time around :-).
 
 I like your suggestions a lot. 

 As a newbie who has to learn everything from scratch and needs to
 scan several lists and groups, I have developped a passionate hate/love
 affair with mailing lists and usenets groups. Nothing is so time
 consuming and annoying and actually prevents from systematic learning
 so much as to search for all the admittedly very useful information one
 can find in a list like this one and others. 

 Mike Heins said in one of his posts to this list lately that in "tutoring"
 someone via a mailing lists lies the way to madness. Agreed. To me it
 seems sometimes that trying to learn from archived mailing list messages
 goes the same way and direction.
 
 Isn't there a way to provide a www-form to submit a post to a mailing
 list, which would force the poster to fill out specific information in
 regards to his subject category, operating system, error logs entries,
 status of the post (question, answer, follow-up, resubmitted question,
 discussion, off-topic, rant, kudos, thanks etc) and much more ?
 
 If the poster doesn't fill out the form with the information one would
 find necessary to answer the question and to provide a search engine
 with meaningful hooks in the body of the mail message to search for,
 the form's submission would be rejected. If there were "comments" fields
 on the form, one still can express freely, but would enforce the "freedom
 of speech" to be used responsably. 
 
 Just another entry on my christmas wish list for the year 2000. 8-)
 
 Birgitt Funk
 

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