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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Saturday 18 October 2008 11:49:39 Stroller wrote: |
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>> On 17 Oct 2008, at 21:52, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: |
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>>> bump |
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>> Please don't do that here. |
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> [New thread for the benefit of thread-aware mailer users] |
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> I hate that too. Actually it annoys me intensely, especially when people have |
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> never read ESR's essay on writing intelligent questions and bump after 6 |
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> hours. Or forget that the list is international and there are timezones. |
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> But, it can be a useful mechanism. Probably something worthy of discussion: |
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> We can't always assume that no replies automatically means no-one reading the |
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> list knows the answer. Folk often go away for a week and simply delete list |
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> mail when they return, or can't be bothered reading the list for a few days. |
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> Sometimes people just can't be bothered answering (I do this quite a lot) |
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> There can be many reasons for people who can answer and don't. So, assuming |
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> that the question was intelligently asked the first time, what is an |
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> acceptable way around here to produce the intended effect of a forum-style |
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> bump? |
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> I'll go first and offer my usual way: wait 3 days to a week and re-post in a |
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> new thread. Say up front that it's a repost and add any new relevant data. |
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Since I use Seamonkey and read each one to see if I can even remotely |
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provide help, I can't say that it would ever do any good from my point. |
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Maybe it would if someone else is using the web based reader or it was |
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posted on the forums but no point here. |
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I guess the only thing that gets on my nerves is personal attacks so not |
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much bothers me anyway. Text or HTML, doesn't bother me. Top posting |
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does when you have to bounce back and forth across five or six replies |
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but I'm usually seasick by then anyway. o_O Bad subject lines don't |
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help much but they usually get the idea when no one replies after a |
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while. At least here we are pretty sure what distro they are using |
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unlike the KDE mailing list. |
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Just don't see where bumping would help any here. Could be wrong tho. |
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Wouldn't be the first time for that. -_o |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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