Re: Removing a kernel completely?

From: Sybren Stuvel (sybrenUSE_at_YOURthirdtower.imagination.com)
Date: 08/25/03

  • Next message: David: "Re: Removing a kernel completely?" 
    Date: 25 Aug 2003 16:37:18 GMT

    Tim Cambrant enlightened us with:
    > Hi, I've just started experimenting with several kernels, and I currently
    > have three kernels installed on my system, choosable with grub.

    Stop multiposting. I already helped you with your problem, yet you
    keep posting the same question in other newsgroups. It is very
    insulting. Read http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html before posting
    again.

    You are multiposting, which means you post a separate message to each
    newsgroup. There is no way for someone trying to answer your question,
    to see if it has already been answered by someone else. Thus, you ask
    for my time, you ask me to put in effort to answer your question, but
    it might be all for nothing because you might already have your
    answer. That is concidered insulting.

    Futhermore, someone might have the same question as you do. There is
    no way for that person to find the answer, if it were to be posted in
    one of the other groups you posted to.

    Next time, post your question to one newsgroup. If you can't get a
    decent answer in a day or two, try the next one. If you really,
    really, really want to post to multiple newsgroups, crosspost to them.

    Crossposting means putting all groups you want to post to on a single
    line - that way everybody can see to which groups the post went. Do
    not post to more than four newsgroups - that's never good. I won't
    even see your post if you do that. Also, always set up a
    'Followup-To:' header, to make sure all replies go to the same
    newsgroup. If you don't know how to do that, post to a single group
    instead.

    Sybren 

    -- 
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
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