guessed what Gwebdec is, but got it wrong; you're correcting him. But
I'm not going to spend my time and effort to go find the previous email
to get the context. Instead, I'm just going to dangle, making
assumptions about what your email is all about.
Precisely. Some one had asked if it was the same as another programme, which it isn't. So, I explained what it is.
In the first quote above, the situation is even worse. What is a fine
idea? Installing Gwebdec? Installing it via make? Installing the GTK 2.0
dev libraries? Exiting from root? Without context, all we can do is
remember or go search the archives or assume.
The Fine Idea is to (in a (Solved) thread, put a summary of what the original thread is (or was) about. I was replying to the suggestor that it was a fine Idea.
Concerning top-posting, lots of people have been trained in recent years
by certain (*ahem*) email programs to put their replies to messages at
the top of the previous email. After three or four rounds of this,
you've got an entire conversation that's written backwards. That's okay
in some contexts, but for reasons I won't go into here (see the thread
for more info), most of us on this list find that to be, well, backwards.
Instead, you should intersperse your comments just after the material to
which you're replying, just as happens in real life. For example, you
write an email that says:
> My dog is smart.
> My girlfriend is pretty.
> My mom loves me.
And I reply:
> Yeah, but do you let her lick your face?
>
>> My dog is smart.
>> My girlfriend is pretty.
>> My mom loves me.
>
Am I talking about your dog, your girlfriend, or your mom (ew-w-w!)? If
I instead reply like so:
>> My dog is smart.
>
> Yeah, but do you let her lick your face?
>
>> My girlfriend is pretty.
>> My mom loves me.
>
then it's pretty clear I'm talking about your dog.
In that case, I'll disperse my replies within the text. A wise move. The only reason I've been deleting is that, on another fairly high-volume mailing list (WOT-DM: Wheel of Time - Dragonmount), we had a similar issue: Nearly all of the members have Gmail and so not deleting the prior stuff gets every one quite livid, I. E. having all the previous messages under the newest one. Gmail already does an archiving, so there is no need. I'm afraid I had not taken in to consideration the fact that, on this list I've noticed, I'm one of the only ones to respond via Gmail. Any way, the situation is rectified and all are happy (like a meal-worm in some grain.
Now, that was an odd analogy....
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Thanks for letting us know that you got Gwebdec working.
I'm grateful for the Assistance.
