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On Montag 22 Dezember 2008, b.n. wrote: |
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> The user is complaining of a *damn serious* problem. His emails were |
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> ignored for an undocumented formatting community rule, and it made |
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> impossible for him to use the mailing list, without anything alarming |
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> him of the problem until late. |
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no. His mails were ignored because nobody had an answer. Shown by the fact |
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that nobody complained about his triple posting or html mails. |
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> I do not use html email myself, but what happened to him is surely plain |
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> wrong. |
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no, it is just 'life'. |
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> And what's even worse, instead of people concerning about that and how |
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> to solve the situation in the future, there is a lot of people giggling |
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> and behaving like "OMG H4X0RZ" against the "lame n00b" , ignoring the |
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> fact that not everyone in this world has been born uttering his first |
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> words on Usenet. |
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just search for 'html mail' in this list's archive, please? |
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> Please. He's completely right in demanding apologies and a swift |
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> reaction to the problem -because if users cannot access the list due to |
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> undocumented stuff, it's a problem. |
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no, he is absolutly wrong in demanding everything. Nobody is paid to be here |
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or answer his mails. He asked something nobody was able to or willing to |
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answer. The html mails were a different problem. And now he thinks that his |
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problem was caused by html - instead it was caused by a lack of |
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knowledge/willingness in participation. |
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> Also: to the people filtering out html mail: why? No, really, *why*? My |
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> mail client is set to receive html mail and convert it in plain text |
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> transparently, so I *never* see the html. Why can't you do so? It's not |
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> 1990 anymore. Could you use a more serious email client? What's the |
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> point in filtering out content because of formatting? You dislike html? |
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> Have your client convert it in text. You think it's heavier than it |
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> should be? Hmm, we live in a world of broadband and 1-Tb hard disks, and |
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> emerge -auv world, do you really complain for a couple more kb? |
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since this list has hundreds, maybe thousands recipients - yes, complaining is |
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justified. |
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> I understand the fascination with the Ancient Unix Tools, but don't you |
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> think a bit more elasticity is worthwile in 2009? |
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elasticity like - first thinking, than attacking everybody? |
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