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On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Mark David Dumlao wrote: |
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<snip> |
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> That was one of the coldest, most invisible, and hardest to |
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> troubleshoot communication errors I've ever seen. I don't even know |
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> where to begin. It's like being in a foreign country and being told, |
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> years later, that wearing shoes there meant "I'm not serious, so |
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> please ignore my opinions.". The funny thing is, I have been |
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> subscribed to this mailing list for maybe 2 years now, mostly just for |
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> asking questions, but I didn't suspect that I was being ignored since |
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> I usually got one or two answers. |
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> I would like to express must-needed-to-be-expressed frustration, as |
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> there is place for it, and to make aware that that is a serious |
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> problem. |
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> |
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> I am currently searching my subscription info, the gentoo site, or the |
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> mailing list welcome for any hints that html messages are rude or |
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> unwanted. I am having some difficulty finding it, that alone is a |
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> warning sign that the amount of pre-specialization needed to |
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> participate in the community is dangerously prohibitive to the point |
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> where it is almost invisible. |
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<snip> |
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> This is a _community-wide_bug_, if ever there was a place to file it. |
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> I don't recall it being rude to send html emails anywhere else without |
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> it appearing in bold letters. Had I known, I would have always used |
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> plain formatting. |
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<snip> |
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almost all linux mailing lists - and almost all technical mailing lists have a |
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no-html rule. If you decide that fance formating is more important than |
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readership, you are on your own. |
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Also every month is a lenghty thread where people tell someone to stop using |
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html. You must have skipped that threads. |
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