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From: "Steve Whalen" <SteveWhalen001@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Aligning comments with Emacs ada-mode?
Date: 9 Aug 2006 13:03:04 -0700
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randomm@mindless.com wrote:
> X-No-Archive: Yes
>
> Brilliant, Emmanuel, it works perfectly.  Thanks very much!
>
> Cheers,
> Rand
>
> P.S.  The best answer is the one that addresses the question that was
> asked! ;)

After reading your P.S., now I'm sorry you got the answer you were
seeking.

Why do you have your posts set to prevent archiving?

After a week or two, someone seeking the same information will find a
broken thread with your posts missing.

This means for weeks, months, and years, anyone needing the answer to
the question you asked (or a similar one about another Ada/emacs
configuration setting), will just find fragments of the thread, and
will have to guess at what the original question was.

The information others have taken their time to provide to you, will be
much less valuable to anyone else seeking that information in the
future.

The principal value of the newsgroups, is as a searchable archive of
answers to questions like yours.  For every question I've asked on the
newsgroups over the years, I've probably had dozens if not hundreds of
questions answered without my having to ask the question, because
someone else already asked it and the answer is recorded in the
newsgroups.

By breaking up the threads the way you are, you significantly lessen
the value of the newsgroups over time. 

Why do you do that?

Steve