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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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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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What tone? You call that "tone" ? You're slipping..... been to |
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too many 'team' meetings lately? |
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Agreeded; just pointing it out. I find gmane too useful so |
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I tend to prune and post succinctly. Rarely do I need to put |
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up a big long post. But I do read and snip before posting; |
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so my approach is a valid as any..... focus, snip and post goes |
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a long way, but it does require some reading and editing skills, |
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just to set the record straight. Noobs can follow who they like, |
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as they like, when they like.... |
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When needed I just use an nntp font end...... (oh, had my own |
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solution already?) tricky; precious; tricky........ |
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You're slipping, you old_fart ? |
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James |
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