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As a side note, I do such things (Linux capacity planning) for a living |
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and am rather unlikely to deliver major quantities of valuable advice |
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for free. Perhaps there is someone in the original poster's part of the |
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world who would, though. |
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Anthony Gorecki wrote: |
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>(apologies if this is delivered twice) |
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>Geisel, |
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>It's unlikely that someone would take the time to analyze your new computer |
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>system and make blind suggestions. You'd have better luck asking a specific |
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>question, preferably after doing some research of your own. See |
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>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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>Secondly, extracting some header information from your message: |
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>X-Filtering-Reason: No text/plain message body was present. |
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>X-Filtering-Reason: The message contained data that was of an illegal content |
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> type. |
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>X-Karma: -2 |
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>and after briefly scanning your message (in unrendered markup form), here are |
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>a few suggestions: |
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>- Send your mail in plain text format. Many of the Gentoo developers and users |
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>on this mailing list can read HTML text without having it rendered, but |
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>they're more likely to simply send your message on an instantaneous trip to |
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>the trash; many mail filters will do this automatically (mine included). |
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>- Don't waste message space by sending virtual business cards (the "illegal |
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>content type" mentioned in the second filtering header). If you need to |
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>provide information about yourself, add a web address to your signature; save |
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>us the trouble of looking at data that's of no interest. If someone wants |
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>more information, they'll search the web or visit the website that you've |
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>listed in your signature. |
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>- Be concise. Basic information about the computer is useful. A raw dump of |
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>data, spanning your entire device subsystem, is not. This is also, from a |
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>security standpoint, potentially unwise. |
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