Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/03/15/12:58:52
Dave Korn wrote on Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:50 PM::
> On 15 March 2007 16:28, Phil Betts wrote:
>
> [talk list snipped, no need to x-post]
>
I didn't cross post, I set the reply to field to the talk list. I
just forgot to point out it was TITTTL'd.
> It's considered good netiquette that if you post a problem to a
> list, and later find a solution, you post a followup saying what the
> solution was, http://cygwin.com/acronyms#FTR. That way, any time
> someone has the same problem again and stumbles across your post in
> the archive, they'll be able to find the solution with it.
I agree totally, but the given "solution" was to a question that
hadn't been posed.
Rather it was a response to his own post about how he'd worked out
(by reference to a very recently decried site) how to implement your
answer to the original question, which (as you pointed out) he'd
already answered himself in the subject line of the initial post.
Although my attention has now lapsed somewhat, it appears from the
continuing thread that I was right to flag up, albeit in an oblique
manner, that the "solution" given was perhaps not of the highest
provenance.
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