Notes and Policies and Stuff...Re: [PHP-NOTES] note 9179 modified in time by jmcastagnetto

jmcastagnetto@php.net wrote: > [Editor's note. Yes. That is a fact that is well known and tied to the OS. If this is not > solved by then, a malfunctioning in a script might be the least of your troubles. BTW, using fake > emails, in particular the ones for the PHP list is a bad thing.] > > Wouldn't relying on this function to do time comparision will eventually bump into the > Unix clock overflow problem in year 2033? Uh... If there is no email submitted, it *defaults* to php-general. Idea being that this address would become sprinkled throughout the manual, and when people wanted to ask a question, maybe they'd click on the php-general email and start interacting with the list. So they aren't forging, they're simply not submitting their email address. Also, when we get the post on PHP-notes, it isn't padded with the lovely path information, or however the different mail servers handle it respectively....(I get full headers in the body). I also wonder if "adding" editors notes onto questions is a good thing. It seems to imply that not only is asking questions in the errata okay, but that PHP folks will personally answer, online. So it *encourages* asking questions, rather than discouraging it. What I've been doing, (when it seems to be an issue that needs answering, and I have an answer), is adding a separate contribution and then deleting the first question. We *want* the questions, and anything that appear to be questions, to simply cease to exist in the manual. Otherwise, people will see that questions are asked, and somehow answered, and assume that it must be okay behavior. Even if an editor responds with an answer in email it may invite additional questions, because even though their question was deleted, they got their answer... so next time, rather than ask the list, they can post an errata note and get a "personal response from the PHP team". Thoughts? Comments? Flames? -Bop -- Brought to you from boop!, the dual boot Linux/Win95 Compaq Presario 1625 laptop, currently running RedHat 6.1. Your bopping may vary.