On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 06:14:50PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Friday June 10 2005 8:40 am, you wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > >It's > > >preserved for posterity and not everybody wants to read a whole > > >thread to figure out what solved some random printing problem. > > > > But, in fact, most people use web-based archives in which that's > > exactly how they access the messages after the original discussion. > > Even then, the answers Google finds are the ones most relevant to the > keywords. Answers with untrimmed quotes frequently get filtered by > Google as being duplicate, and are thus basically lost. People who > read archives don't typically read entire threads: It's a waste of > time when all that's relevant is the solution post with quotes > containing the relevant parts of what lead up to that solution.
In my experience, the solution(s) are presented in several messages, as the list-writers grope toward it, discover some of them work a bit and others don'e and without context you don't know which ones are the equivalend of rm -rf *. -- hendrik > > -- > Paul Johnson > Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ursine.ca/~baloo/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
