Niall O Broin wrote:
> As it happens, I first met Lars (AFAIR) on the Sun Managers' mailing list
> which is by a LONG way the most clueful mailing list I have ever used (though
> it has maybe gone a little downhill in recent years). Every month, if memory
> serves, Sun Managers sends people a reminder of what the list is about. This
> serves to remind new (and maybe not so new) users what the list is about. I
> must dig out a Sun Managers mailing, and use it as the basis of a prototype
> mailing for this list. Maybe we could send it out with the monthly mailman
> reminder.
a possibly redundant and time-consuming request would be to also include
a short synopsis of questions and solutions posted that month.
...or to request that people post to the list once they have the
solution they were looking for, with a quick rundown of the symptoms and
the cure.
i find most solutions by searching mailing lists, and am always grateful
for people that do the above, reducing my reading to one post instead of
a whole thread!
Kae
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