IMPORTANT: Complaint about private answers in oracle-l list 2006-04-03 - By Matthew Zito
This is also the commonly accepted practice on some of the high-traffic UNIX
lists as well, like Sun-managers. The standard is to put something like
SUMMARY: (question or problem), and then aggregate this responses. This also
helps future generations, as it makes the solutions to that problem easily
google-able.
Matt
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From: oracle-l-bounce@(protected) on behalf of Dennis Williams
Sent: Mon 4/3/2006 10:02 AM
To: juancarlosreyesp@(protected)
Cc: Stephane Faroult; Michael Fontana; oracle-l@(protected)
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: Complaint about private answers in oracle-l list
Juan,
I think people provide private replies for a variety of reasons.
To me, once you've solved the question you originally posted, it is nice to
post a summary back to the list (and I have seen you do this, Juan). In that
you can summarize some ideas that people provided you privately.
Dennis Williams
On 4/2/06, Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco <juancarlosreyesp@(protected)> wrote:
Thank you to all who answered.
I want to insist the problem is not to get some private emails,
neither everyone should be forced to post to all the list, what I'm
telling is the fact, that posting privately is becoming "the rule",
when more than 50% of the answers one receives are private answers,
and not posted to the list.
I had received privately post from very recognized person in this
list, on not ot-topics that should be post to every one because are
very useful. And honestly I don't perceive there are too many post in
this list to justify to post privately.
I'm not trying to tell "Every one has to post to everyone", neither
forcing to post to everyone when someone don't wants to do it.
What I'm telling is before posting privately think if wouldn't be
better to post to all the list, because finally this is a discussion
forum, not a private question&answers forum service :).
Have a nice day.
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practice
on some of the high-traffic UNIX lists as well, like Sun-managers. The
standard is to put something like SUMMARY: (question or problem), and then
aggregate this responses. This also helps future generations, as it makes
the solutions to that problem easily google-able.</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> oracle-l-bounce@(protected) on behalf
of
Dennis Williams<BR><B>Sent:</B> Mon 4/3/2006 10:02 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
juancarlosreyesp@(protected)<BR><B>Cc:</B> Stephane Faroult; Michael Fontana;
oracle-l@(protected)<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: IMPORTANT: Complaint about
private
answers in oracle-l list<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Juan,</DIV>
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<DIV>I think people provide private replies for a variety of reasons.</DIV>
<DIV>To me, once you've solved the question you originally posted, it is nice
to
post a summary back to the list (and I have seen you do this, Juan). In that
you
can summarize some ideas that people provided you privately. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Dennis Williams<BR><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 4/2/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>Juan Carlos
Reyes Pacheco</B> <<A
href="mailto:juancarlosreyesp@(protected)">juancarlosreyesp@(protected)</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px
solid">Thank
you to all who answered.<BR><BR>I want to insist the problem is not to get
some private emails,<BR>neither everyone should be forced to post to all the
list, what I'm <BR>telling is the fact, that posting privately is
becoming "the rule",<BR>when more than 50% of the answers one
receives are private answers,<BR>and not posted to the list.<BR><BR>I had
received privately post from very recognized person in this <BR>list, on not
ot-topics that should be post to every one because are<BR>very useful. And
honestly I don't perceive there are too many post in<BR>this list to justify
to post privately.<BR><BR>I'm not trying to tell "Every one has to post to
everyone", neither <BR>forcing to post to everyone when someone don't wants
to
do it.<BR>What I'm telling is before posting privately think if
wouldn't be<BR>better to post to all the list, because finally this is a
discussion<BR>forum, not a private question&answers forum service :).
<BR><BR>Have a nice day.<BR>--<BR><A
href="http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l">http://www.freelists.org
/webpage/oracle-l</A><BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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