Mailing List Archive

"J. Horner" <jhorner@2jnetworks.com> writes:

> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, G.W. Haywood wrote:
>
> >
> > It's a fine idea, but in may cases the poster won't know whether it's
> > a [Config] or [Apache] or [Apache::Registry] problem. Do you propose
> > to create a list of acceptable tags? That might work, but you'd need
> > some like
> >
> > [NEWBIE]
> > [DOESNT_FIT_ANY_TOPIC]
> > [NO_IDEA_WHATS_GOING_WRONG_HERE]
> >
>
> Don't forget [OT] for off-topic.
>
> I also think that anyone who considers themselves a newbie with a newbie
> question should [NEWBIE] their on-topic posts. This definitely includes
> me.

To me, the only problem with the [NEWBIE] tag would be that many
newbies wouldn't know about these tag conventions, and therefore
wouldn't have the slightest idea that such a tag should be used here.

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Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com
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