Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx service desk

[Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim)]

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Rob Partington wrote:
> Al Gilman wrote:
> >     - Rob should have a right of first refusal in terms of 
> >     implementing the auto-responder.  It can be done anywhere
> (guess what i was doing yesterday?  yep, installing autoresponders...)
> >     because email is like that.  But it would probably be
> >     quicker if it is there.
> If someone writes a nice email message and sends it to me, I'll put it
> up this week.

I'll go back to my original point, which was that some questions to the
lynx-dev list go unanswered.  I suggested a tracking mechanism, so that
folks who like to answer these questions can do it without missing some
questions, or duplicating work.  I looked at the archive for December, and
quickly found 4 reasonable questions that seemed unanswered (not even an
rtfm).

My longer description of this tracking proposal is at
http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/~jspath/lynx_service.html.

How would an autoresponse be helpful, when the majority of questions
actually are answered, and many posts come from semi-knowledgeable
developer types?  I certainly don't want more mail from lynx-dev :-) 

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