Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Eric Martin <freak4u...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> b) just because you don't read all of the threads on this list doesn't >> mean you're exempt from them. There are plenty times that somebody asks >> a question and the answer is, "search the archives for XYZ, we already >> covered this, and please search before asking". This is one of those >> threads >> > This isn't one of those threads. In the vast majority of those cases, > there is at least the item to search for. There wasn't one in this > case. > > >> c) continuing along this line runs the risk of pissing off the very >> people who you're asking for help. >> > Shake up who needs to be shaken up. If people get offended by even > getting suggested to the fact that their rules are hard to detect, > they are going to be offended by a lot of things anyway, and questions > are going to be some of them. > > >> I get that you don't like the way things are, but this list is a >> community and we all agree to abide by certain rules. The rules don't >> change every time a new person joins the community. >> > I think you're missing the point. I never asked the community to > change its rules. I'm only saying that these particular rules were > invisible, and there's no way to find out about it, and that's going > to be a problem for any user community. > > this isn't some big secret, you just don't read all of the threads. There are 5,120 results for html+email when searching the gmane archives of gentoo-user. The link below is the search I used, sorted by date (descending).
http://search.gmane.org/?query=html+email&author=&group=gmane.linux.gentoo.user&sort=date&DEFAULTOP=and&xP=Zhtml%09Zemail&xFILTERS=Glinux.gentoo.user---A
