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From: "b.n." <brullonulla@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:48:56
Message-Id: 494F8F1A.9000500@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver) by Stroller
1 Stroller ha scritto:
2 >
3 > On 21 Dec 2008, at 09:46, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
4 >> ... On perhaps my third or fourth repost, I found a
5 >> shocking answer:
6 >>
7 >> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht
8 >>> ...
9 >>> You may try by sending a mail using the text format instead of the HTML
10 >>> one. I don't read more than one line when it's written in HTML. I
11 >>> suspect that a lot of contributors do the same here.
12 >>>
13 >>> Please, conform to the netiquette.
14 >>
15 >> That was one of the coldest, most invisible, and hardest to
16 >> troubleshoot communication errors I've ever seen.
17 >
18 > This is a very poor description. Mr Sebrecht's reply certainly was not a
19 > "communication error", if that's what you mean. His response was quite
20 > reasonable, and it wasn't even terse.
21
22 The comunication error is not the answer of mr.Sebrech. It's the fact
23 that, as you put it:
24
25 > no-one bitchslapped you for this.
26
27 Basically he went ignored for unknown (to him -and to potentially any
28 newbie) reasons, without feedback, for a lot of time until Sebrech told
29 him that under pressure.
30
31 > I don't know what you mean by using the adjective "cold" in relation to
32 > the communication error that your mailer posts HTML by default. You
33 > should file an upstream bug about that with whomever supplies it.
34
35 Why is posting HTML mail a bug? I don't like HTML mail and I try to
36 avoid it as much as possible, but there is nothing intrinsically "wrong"
37 in HTML mail.
38
39 m.

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