A Plea for sanity when posting to this list.

[James Wilkinson]

(I'm planning to leave most of this thread alone. But...)

Matthew S-H wrote:
> * Avoid "thank you for your help" e-mails on the list after an issue 
> has been resolved.  If you feel the need to send out "thank you"s, send 
> them to people directly (off the list).

On the other hand, if it isn't obvious what solved your problem,
*please* send a message saying how you did solve it. These mailing lists
are (supposed to) be archived, and Google will index those archives.

So a "Thanks: option A didn't work but option B did just the trick"
message will help other people in the same position without them having
to ask.

It looks like those archives get pretty high rankings in Google. [1]

James.

[1] Sometimes I Google for the silly quotes my sigmonster puts in my
signature. I used to post a lot to the Fedora lists: often my signature
in an archived Fedora List mail will turn up above the original.

It looks like I'll be able to do the same thing for the Ubuntu lists...
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