On Thursday, December 15, 2011 09:51:52 AM Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Please do not ask people to include log files or other attachments to a
> public mailing list! Information like that should be pasted online (f.e.
> at http://pastebin.com/ ) and a link to the resource should be used.
I must disagree with this; for IRC this is appropriate, since typical IRC chat logs are not indexed by google and the like, nor are questioners encouraged to read the archives of the IRC logs.
I can't count the times I've searched for a solution to a problem, found someone with the same issue posting online, tracked down some potential solution, only to find that the pastebin referenced as having the solution was no longer there.
Ditto for links to fixes on rapidshare, megaupload, googledocs, and kin. It would be nice to excerpt logs and fixes for future searching through google or directly through the archives.
Or, to put it more bluntly, you shouldn't tell people to search the archives but then have people put essential data on an ephemeral resource that is dissociated from the archive.
IMHO, of course.
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