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John J. Foster ha scritto: |
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> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 09:32:26AM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: |
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>> I think you're missing the point. I never asked the community to |
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>> change its rules. I'm only saying that these particular rules were |
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>> invisible, and there's no way to find out about it, and that's going |
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>> to be a problem for any user community. |
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> OK, but don't you honestly think we could just move on now and talk |
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> about Gentoo. Please. |
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Please not. |
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The user is complaining of a *damn serious* problem. His emails were |
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ignored for an undocumented formatting community rule, and it made |
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impossible for him to use the mailing list, without anything alarming |
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him of the problem until late. |
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I do not use html email myself, but what happened to him is surely plain |
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wrong. |
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And what's even worse, instead of people concerning about that and how |
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to solve the situation in the future, there is a lot of people giggling |
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and behaving like "OMG H4X0RZ" against the "lame n00b" , ignoring the |
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fact that not everyone in this world has been born uttering his first |
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words on Usenet. |
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Please. He's completely right in demanding apologies and a swift |
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reaction to the problem -because if users cannot access the list due to |
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undocumented stuff, it's a problem. |
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Also: to the people filtering out html mail: why? No, really, *why*? My |
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mail client is set to receive html mail and convert it in plain text |
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transparently, so I *never* see the html. Why can't you do so? It's not |
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1990 anymore. Could you use a more serious email client? What's the |
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point in filtering out content because of formatting? You dislike html? |
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Have your client convert it in text. You think it's heavier than it |
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should be? Hmm, we live in a world of broadband and 1-Tb hard disks, and |
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emerge -auv world, do you really complain for a couple more kb? |
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I understand the fascination with the Ancient Unix Tools, but don't you |
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think a bit more elasticity is worthwile in 2009? |
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m. |
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