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On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> So don't be such a pompous ass. We didn't ignore you because we don't |
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> like you. There's never a policy by the gentoo-user mailing list to |
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> automatically, collectively ignore all e-mails sent in HTML. We are |
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> not that well organized. And we are certainly not the borg collective. |
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> It is a lot more likely that your query received no response because |
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> no one know how to answer or how to diagnose your problem. |
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> What do you in fact propose the FAQ say? That we prefer plain-text |
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> emails? Or that "if you post in HTML, there's a chance that some |
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> members may ignore your posts"? It sounds to me from this thread that |
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> you are advocating more of the latter rather than the former (that you |
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> are pissed off because your post may have been ignored because of |
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> formatting and not of content). And to me a warning like that is just |
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> plain silly. You can equally well add a disclaimer that "Joerg |
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> Schilling will chew you out if you use cdrkit instead of cdrtools" |
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> (Joerg, no disrespect meant at all by that, just stating a fact that |
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> you will in fact do so). |
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> So you are pissed that you got ignored. Well, tough. Stop making it |
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> sound like hordes of people have came before you and were ignored |
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> because of their HTML e-mails, and that unless this reform passes |
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> hordes more of people will suffer the same fate. It just ain't true. |
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> While I agree that it may be a good idea to have an FAQ somewhere |
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> for the mailing lists discussion basic netiquette, your rather |
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> personal vendetta is blowing this way out of proportion. |
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Pompous ass? Personal Vendetta? Pissed off? What world is this? |
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One bug report is just an announcement that there is a problem. It |
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might seem to you that people get on a high horse when they say that, |
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but a lot of us like solving problems. It's the first few reactions |
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here that were too pompous for taste. Why, the OP was a _question_. |
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