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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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