At 03:48 PM 4/3/2001 -0400, you wrote:
But here's a plea to posters: *please* use informative titles for your posts, not just "Bad trouble with 7.1" or something like that.
Agreed!...
Ideally, the title should make it clear to the reader whether it's at all relevant to the reader's interests and knowledge. The more specific, the better.
I personally think that using tags (such as the often-used [OT] one for off-topic posts, as well as [WAS] and [SOLVED]) helps a lot, especially if you're consistent with your tagging methodology. Perhaps others don't like it...I think it works great though, because it allows you to set up your filters in a more organised way. Perhaps we should vote on standard tags? After all this is open source isn't it? :-) [OT] off topic [SOLVED] means those who are looking for people to help don't need to continue reading that thread [WAS] topic switch. Not sure of it's value for this situation. Perhaps we should start using categories like: [SOUND] sound related problems [YAST] trouble with YaST [INSTALL] trouble installing [SCRIPT] shell scripts [CRON] cron.. [KDE] KDE related problems [APACHE] help needed with apache. and so on... [POSTFIX] [SENDMAIL] [PROFTPD] If we did this, it would allow, for instance, desktop users to filter out anything like [APACHE] and other server-related stuff, and would allow the Sys Admins to filter out [KDE] [GNOME] and similar "desktop" related things. It would also allow us to filter out anything that /doesn't/ have a tag, which would be new users and careless people. now /that/ would cut down some traffic ;-) and would also help get people to actually do it, since they'd be much less likely to get an answer if they didn't tag their subject (in theory, at least). What do y'all think? I vote for it. Basically just put a tag with as major a category as possible (while still retaining some specific value) and spell it right :-) Or we could go for something like [SERVER] [NEWUSER] [CRASH] ... I don't know. Don't like that as well. I do like the idea of have dual-access via newsgroup OR email to the same list. say, do we have a list-faq like most newsgroups do? Let the flames begin... ;-) ...should we keep a tally of yeses and nos, like the way the Debian project votes for things? "Peace, Love and Linux" :-) ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com