At 11:35 PM -0700 2000-01-10, Sasha Pachev wrote:
>Richard McLean wrote:
>>
>> >To make reading the mailing list a little faster, wouldn't it be a
>> >good idea to put at the start of the subject line 'answer:' instead of
>> >'re:' when one posts a 'definitive answer' to a question. This would
>> >help those that answer questions on the mailing list to quickly skip
>> >already answered questions.
>>
>> What if the answer is wrong? :-)
>
>If someone like Paul DuBois or Benjamin Pflugmann, or somebody from the
>MySQL development team posts an answer to an easy or medium difficulty
>question, and considers his answer final enough to mark it so, 99.9 % of
>the time he will be right, so the rest of the development team could
>just leave the question alone if they are in a hurry -- they can still
>read the answer if they want to :-)
The trouble is that if we start marking stuff "final answer", some
smart aleck will pipe up and say, "what is this, 'Who Wants to be a
Millionaire?'". :-)
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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
