[melling]

StackOverFlow provides structure and organization to the information. I've dug through enough email threads that ended at a dead-end to be able to say that the structure is welcome.

People tag their questions, while others vote on the questions and answers. Question titles are matched against the database when people enter new questions. Admins "close" duplicates, and stop trolling. The reputation "economy" provides a way to get an answer.

StackOverflow isn't perfect but it is a big step forward in organizing the information so that that the data can be searched more effectively.

http://stackoverflow.com/search

There are 500,000+ questions tagged. Some are great, some are not. Joel and Jeff don't provide either of these. We do!

Don't try this on a mailing list.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/101268/hidden-features-of...