On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 10:26, melgil88 wrote: > I have problems searching the list, alot of times it comes up 'no > matches found' but when I manually eyeball the month's listing, the > exact thing I was searching for is right there. For example, there was > a person (sorry, don't remember who) who kindly came out with the stats > listing, I saw some interesting threads there and used the search > function to find them....nada :(. I've seen other people have the same > problem. > Glad you liked the stats. :) I wonder if the search feature goes through just the body of the message and not the subject lines? > But would it be helpful to maybe list the most recent > bugs and problems here in this list maybe say once a week? I remember > newsgroups used to have FAQ's posted weekly with the rules of the > newsgroup and any of the latest news/happenings. Might this not be > useful here? It doesn't have to be a FAQ, but maybe something like > "LATEST PROBLEMS AND THEIR FIXES" or "READ HERE FIRST" something with a > loud title. 2 things I can think of right off the bat are the XP > Partition Problem(TM) and the Asus Problem(TM). There's also some video > card problems that might be included as well. A simple description of > the problem and a link to buzilla and a fix would be in there. > I like that idea. The stats thing was kind of a way to try and figure out what the hot topics were. Need to figure out some way to capture actual problems and solutions, but I think that is going to require someone to manual collect that information. > I'd volunteer to scratch up something if people think it would be > useful. If not then I'll just crawl back into the woodwork where I came > from ;) I think that would be very useful. A weekly message with a list of common problems and solutions would IMHO help a lot of people. I think it should include a section on what to do before posting a question (ie. check log files, google) and how to ask a question (include version info, hardware info, exact error message, how to reproduce, etc). Many questions get posted with not much more than "help!" in the message. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Flon's Law: There is not now, and never will be, a language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad programs.
