Brad Knowles writes: > > However, members of this list often do; eg, this thread got 3 answers. > > Of which two were "We can't help you with OS-specific issues",
Of course. My point is that people do respond, not that it's very helpful; I'm looking for ways to save some of that effort. > Moreover, I think we need to be talking about platform-specific > questions, and not just OS-specific. For example, cPanel is a > platform, and can presumably run on multiple different OSes. If we > were to have a separate section for these kinds of questions, I think > we would want to put all platform-specific and OS-specific questions > together. Right. I actually thought of the cPanel angle, but left it out. > Do we need a FAQ entry on what the proper way is to answer a question? Yes. It's a policy issue. Sometimes the OP will respond to the "nice person who actually answered my question", and start a thread. I think providing answers to off-topic FAQs is a Good Thing[tm], but it should be kept off-list and it shouldn't clutter the main sections of the FAQ. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
