Lindsay Haisley writes: > Stephen, with all due respect for the work you put into your post, I > think it goes a bit overboard in the other direction. If I can pose a > question in 6 or 7 lines of text, do I really need to read a couple of > hundred lines of instruction?
It's under 100 lines, of which almost half were cut-and-pasted from the existing FAQ 1.22. > - or dig through a FAQ and write a critique of it - just to get a > simple answer? Yup, that's exactly the stuff I cut and pasted. Anyway, you're entirely missing the point. I don't expect anybody to read FAQ 1.22 in advance of comitting a faux pas; this particular FAQ is mostly for pointing to *afterward*. > I recently posted a question to this list in about 7 lines > inquiring as to what file is the source document in a Mailman > Pipermail archive. I asked on the list precisely _because_ I > didn't want to spend the time searching through FAQs and other > documentation for a simple answer to a simple question. Er, that's precisely what FAQs and documentation in general are for, so I suggest you go read the current version of FAQ 1.22, then. It was written for people like you.<wink> More seriously, you've been around long enough (and have presumably actually perused the FAQ once or twice) to have a sense of what's *not* in there. You're obviously not the audience for FAQ 1.22, and the question you describe is not one of the ones that Mark should make a New Year's resolution to stop answering. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
