[wellylug] Summarise links?

[Jethro Carr]

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 21:50 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> In the interests of making my life easier :-) and perhaps other
> people, can those of you who post URLs please provide a decent summary
> of the content at the other end?
> 
> "You might find this interesting ... http://some.random.website" just
> doesn't do it for me; I might not, and do I really have to download
> the whole thing to find out?
> 
> "Here's an interesting discussion of how to do YYY using package ZZZ
> ... http://whatever" gives an better idea, and really isn't that long.
> 
> A specific example ...
> "If you use smokeping, this may be useful for you:"
> would become
> "If you use smokeping, and have difficulty transporting RRD files
> between 32-bit and 64-bit machines, this may be useful ..."

I especially did not mention what it was about in relation to smokeping,
since it would be a good idea for all smokeping users to read it NOW and
be aware of this problem, rather finding out about the cross-arch issues
the hard way in the future!

-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog

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