Ms./Mrs. Marcotte, First, since you asked, I am not a smooth talker, I am an asshole through and through. When things aren't right I'll be the first to let you know. Have you ever seen the movie "The American President"? Well, in order to make things work for non-pro's the pro's have to be reminded we are not all pro's. ...and consequently the layout really is hard to use timely and effectively!!!
This site is very hard to use to gain knowledge from other user's questions, unless you spend a freakin' week looking through all the entries. This is not the user's fault, it's the layout designer's fault. They started this site to make things easier. I will admit, things are a bit easier than not having this site afforded to us; as a newbie to MySQL, I use the Manual pages every day. Things on the list are no way near how easy they can be. I cannot fathom why this is not a newsgroup, and why every person/eu has to be flooded with so much email that has nothing to do with them or their queries. Mailing lists just seem stupid to me. Someone please help me to understand why we are being subjected to so much email, when this could just be a posting, and we review the postings. As for your archive statement: The existing archive really has nothing to do with it. They extract the data from the archive first, then post to the page in what ever format they want. They can update and re-layout the page in minutes. The layout designer knows how to use and manipulate the timestamp. 'nuff said? -----Original Message----- From: Etienne Marcotte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 12:16 PM To: raezor Cc: MySQL Lists; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Please redo this horrible web page I know you won't read my answer since I'm not from mysql but I wanna give my 2 cents. First don't you think you could go the "smooth" way for making a request? Either I'm not in a good mood or I can't read english, but your post seemed harsh. It's probably a really huge task to have this archive in a better way, yes it would help, having a searcheable index, search function, etc etc. But if you fool around a little you'll realize that all mail archives are this way (check the one of [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anyways, I don't think by writing "Let's make everything as hard as is possible for the "newbies"." you'll help our newbie cause. Etienne raezor wrote: > > Let's make everything as hard as is possible for the "newbies". > > Please alphabetize or at least use some sort of date organization for the > http://lists.mysql.com/cgi-ez/ezmlm-cgi/1#b instead of making us search > through every entry, including those that have never been responded to. The > Messages by date are messages by submitter. If this is not true, make the > site say date=Nov.1(listed messages) Nov.2(listed messages). What a waste of > time this is for anyone, nonetheless us newbies. I assumed the purpose of > this list was to make things easier. If I am incorrect or viewing this > incorrectly, please reply and let me know (only responses from email address > @mysql.com will be read). > > thanks > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php -- Etienne Marcotte Specifications Management - Quality Control Imperial Tobacco Ltd. - Montreal (Qc) Canada 514.932.6161 x.4001 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
