nospam-googlegroups@erilaz.com (Brett Williams) writes:
>Dave Sill wrote:
>>
>> It's more helpful to explain *how* it fails than to simply assert that
>> it doesn't work. If it made no difference, say so. If anything
>> changed, tell us.
>
> Respectfully, I didn't *know* how it was failing - however I do
> understand your point and in future will endeavour to be more concise
> with relevant logs and the like.

I don't mean *why* it was failing, I mean *how*. For example, if the
original problem was that the messages were just disappearing, and you
made some changes and tried again, and the result was a bounce, then
what you changed had some effect--which is a valuable debugging
clue. Even if it the result was the same--disappearing
messages--that's valuable information too. But if you just say "it
didn't work", that doesn't indicate if there was any change in the
failure mode.

> Thankyou for your response, though, Dave - my apologies for lack of
> clarity and information you could use.

No problem, glad to help. If I sounded cranky, I didn't mean to.

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