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On Wed, 26 May 2004 14:42:16 -0400 (EDT) "Josh Glover" |
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<jmglov@g.o> wrote: |
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| As a final note on the subject of netiquette, I would like to point |
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| out that it is polite to read *all* of a thread before posting an |
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| answer--this helps avoid duplicate posts of the sort we just saw on |
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| the "Handling downloads from sourceforge in an ebuild" thread. |
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I suspect the rash of duplicate responses to the original question came |
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about because the mailing lists were lagging by about half an hour at |
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the time. Although the Gentoo lists are usually pretty good, there are |
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sometimes delays -- when I sent out my reply to the original question, |
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it looked like I was the first person to respond. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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