On Friday 18 January 2019 17:20:33 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 18 Jan 2019 at 16:14:17 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote and > misquoted Dominik George: […] > > > > >The OP posted to each and every user PLUS the list. That is a > > > > huge no no. Consider yourself advised that us old timers don't > > > > go for that and never have. Ric > > > > +1 from another old timer. And at 84 & as of last week part bionic, > > Ric is right as rain. > > > > > I never saw a mail where they did that. Plonk. > > > > I got at least 4 such to me and to the list. If Ric hadn't beat me > > to it, I was about to write another procmail recipe. Might yet if > > the OP that started this doesn't desist with spamming all the list > > members plus posting to the list. > > I haven't seen any spam from plataleas plataleas. By "spamming", do > you mean that you got individually addressed messages duplicating > their list postings, or something else entirely? Individually addressed to me, and identical to the posting. I use kmails dup del frequently, so theres a decent chance I don't have an example. > > Not sure what that empty line signifies. > > > The guy may have had a legit question if one can read thru the haze > > of a language translator and make sense of it, the translator > > unfortunately did not leave any sense in the statements. So I never > > did figure out what the OP was wanting. > > I received messages on the topic given by the subject line, starting > at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/01/msg00636.html > concerning the availability of various kernel versions. They were > answered by Dominik George who eventually suggested that the OP > check whether their mirror was up to date, and that seemed to be > appropriate action. Suddenly Ric Moore chimed in with an accusation > of "spamming", under the same subject: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/01/msg00714.html > > I've already deleted all the substantive posts because I'm not that > deeply into package management, but the archives (starting at the > msg00636.html address) show the thread just as I saw it. > So I'm perplexed. > > Cheers, > David.
Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
