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Re: multiple definitions of 'xxx keyed to...' in egcs-1.1.1
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: multiple definitions of 'xxx keyed to...' in egcs-1.1.1
- From: Steinar Bang <sb at metis dot no>
- Date: 25 Jan 1999 10:44:52 +0100
- References: <m103jQm-00038dC@ocean.lucon.org>
>>>>> hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu):
>>
>> > The egcs mailing list. You can find it at
>>
>> > http://egcs.cygnus.com
>>
>> I know. More specifically at
>> http://egcs.cygnus.com/lists.html
>>
>> But there's egcs-announce, egcs, egcs-bugs, egcs-patches, egcs-cvs,
>> and egcs-testsresults. Some more likely than others, granted. But
>> many of them high volume and with fairly large indexes.
> I said "the egcs mailing list.", not "the egcs-patches mailing list."
Like I said, some were more likely than others. But to be unambious
it would be better to word yourself something like this:
"See my message to the egcs mailing list
http://www.cygnus.com/ml/egcs/
in January 1999, with the subject '...'"
or even (if you felt in a exceptionally good and helpful mood that
day):
"See my message to the egcs mailing list
http://www.cygnus.com/ml/egcs/1999-Jan/0712.html
for egcs 1.1.1 on linux"
There's this little thing called a URL, that used correctly (ie. to
refer to a specific resource instead of a site containing the
resource(*)) can save authors a lot of time in explanation and readers
a lot of time in guessing and wandering through web sites.
- Steinar
(*) Side note and off-topic: my major HTML frames nag, is that it
makes it harder to boomark a particular resource.