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On 09/07/2014 18:44, James wrote: |
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> Stroller <stroller <at> stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: |
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>> Please don't use pastebin sites - if your output is too long to copy and |
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> paste into the body of the message, |
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>> then please attach it as a plain text file. If you name it output.txt then |
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> most people, with GUI mail |
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>> clients, will be able to read it just by double-clicking. |
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>> Most pastebin services expire old pastes periodically (not to mention that |
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> pastebin services are hardly |
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>> profitable, and close down all the time) whereas these mailing list |
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> messages are archived in multiple |
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>> places and are referenced for years. |
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>> If you attach these files as plain text then they'll be archived, useful |
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> to other people with the same |
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>> problem in the future. |
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> I'll agree, this is excellent advise. However, I use game.org to read |
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> and post to gentoo-user. So how do you attached a txt file to |
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> those postings via gmane? Options to get the txt file attachemnent into the |
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> proper record? |
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gentoo-user is a mailing list. It receives mail to the list address and |
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forwards them on to all subscribers. It's all done by mail. |
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Now someone has built an email<->web_thingy gateway. It is deficient by |
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design and as you point out doesn't do big posts AT ALL. |
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That's too bad, but you chose that option and now you must deal with |
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it's deficiencies and shortcomings. |
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Sorry for the tone but that really is how it is. |
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> Gmane refuses to post long replies. Gmane allows one to read and post |
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> from a variety of machines, particularly useful when one locks up |
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> one's main workstation, which I have done of several occasions, and have |
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> to use gmane to recover with the aid of the gentoo-user list: |
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> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user |
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> curiously, |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |