This certainly IS like herding cats, or ducks or, or...

A thread starts with a subject created by the first author and his/her question.
I was offhand wondering why so MANY replies are NOT made to the original post.
Nor even to the topic's author.  Dialog for it's own sake.  Reminds me of FOX news.
Opinions on opinions of opinions for opinions by opinions . . .
Well, okay it's not ALL pure junk.

So,
Usually there are multiple direct replies before a topic's author can respond.
The cruft accumulates, and no one (politely) trims off the bottoms or the tops.
There oughta be a law!  
But instead there will prolly be some newfangled thread enforcement program nobody likes.
Kinda like the M$ crud at the bottom of my free mail.

I can't wait for side-posting.  Aren't some languages right to left?

For example,
Anyone speak Apache?  Here's an unreplied coding question (07/31):

---.htaccess

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.somedomain.com/

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
rewriteCond %{http_host} ^somedomain.com
rewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.somedomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.somedomain.com/ [R=301,L]
---

I'm not sure what he's trying to do here, URL redirection I think.
This public server, www.somedomain.com has a mirror (twin?) for development 
named www.somedomain.dev which is on a seperate private IP.
The question is, can his .htaccess (in the .dev server) redirect
his http requests out to the .com public server?
It would speed up development process without affecting others
who use the .dev server.  A change of his .htaccess would immediately
allow a quick comparison of .dev to .com.

Or maybe I got the question wrong.  No one here even tried to answer it.

Ever tried to shepard leopards...?

  (-:  Chas.M.  :-)

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:27:19 -0700
From: klsmith2020@yahoo.com
Subject: .htaccess config help
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us