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- From: gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello)
- Subject: Re: Wherefore this group?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.185219.24898@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1993Jan27.155027.9777@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 18:52:19 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1993Jan27.155027.9777@midway.uchicago.edu>
- colin@agincourt.bsd.uchicago.edu (& Garrett) writes:
- > If someone is not sure that a problem they are encountering is caused by
- a
- > bug or not, it would seem most appropriate to place the note in a
- > newsgroup dedicated to the subject (c.s.n.sysadmin, programmer, misc).
- > And since 'bug' is a catch-all category for any unexplained
- unsatisfactory
- > behavior, until the problem is resolved, almost anything is a bug
- > candidate. (What percentage of those "I think there's a bug in gcc..."
- > notes pan out?)
- > On the other hand, if something has been proved to be a bug, the most
- > suitable place for a note explaining it is probably a static locus like
- a
- > FAQ (preferably archived), rather than a forum for dynamic discussion
- like
- > a newsgroup.
- > Maybe that's why posts in here have been dwindling?
- >
- > colin
-
- I'm afraid you're right. At the beginning of this group I wrote to the
- creator of it asking that some posting rules be established. I thought
- threads should be disallowed and instead a moderator ought to post
- confirmed bugs (with solutions) as determined by discourse in the other
- Next newsgroups. Your idea of a FAQ would also be required. Still I would
- like to see the bug and solution posted once. I think the problem here
- appears to be the lack of a moderator.
-
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- Greg Colello
- Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology
- Stanford University
- gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu (NeXT mail OK)
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