On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 00:53, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Mon, 17 May 2004, Ruairi Newman wrote:
>> > Yes, this is actually one of the most useful things about the Sun
> > Managers list's archives. People usually post a summary back to
> > the list when they resolve a problem.
>> Discussions on ILUG tend to stay on-list/list included (AFAICT), so
> less need for people to post summaries to list of the responses they
> got in private.
>
Indeed. However, as Kae pointed out, it isn't a lot of fun wading
through a whole thread and pulling out the relevant bits of the solution
as you go.
It's common enough that the solution to an issue will itself be spread
out over several mails to make a summary mail a useful point of
reference for the future.
Regards,
R.
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