Re: Worse then useless replies

Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 14:40 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:47:52AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
pinniped wrote:

huh?

I really don't know what the hell you're talking about. I've
been leaving the subject blank lately because people bitch about
it for no apparent reason. But if you really don't want the
subject changing, why don't you ask Intnsred if he can set
things so that the subject isn't changed? A blank 'subject'
line with a flashing cursor is just begging people to put
something in.



HUH? Just who, and what, are you replying to? How is that
everyone on this list, who has any modicum of experience with the
internet, mailing lists, forums, etc... has subject lines,
in-line quotes as to who and what they are responding to except
you? Are you trying to tell us that you can't figure out how to
use an email/news client properly?

After piniped's Last mail, I did a search of his email header and
found a reference to "www.debianhelp.org"! So I went there and
found that he is most likely using the 'forum' which displays
'threads' to him and must present some option when replying that
destroys the 'subject'. From the 'forum' view, you see all the
previous replys and that give the forum user 'context', while here,
those of us who use good-old-fashioned mailing lists', we dont see
this 'forurm thread view' and see the odd behaviour. So the main
issue is with the debianhelp.org forum software. Hmm. That clears
up the mystery! Cheers,
Kev

I know what forum he is deeply involved in as I have both asked and
answered questions there before and seen the level of knowledge that
he has. That's why it was was so confusing to me that he was
seemingly ignoring what people had to say on the subject and not
practicing the normal standards for communication.

I think deeply involved is an understatement:

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Highest Users
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User Zorkmids
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pinniped 665
vees 419
jaclon 246

Regards,
Andrei
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)


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