On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:32:00AM +0200, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> I respectfully suggest that nobody wastes one second to
> program ways to sort/prune/etc messages that where not
> threaded properly BY THEIR SENDERS.
Somebody did and sent a patch for 1.3.19 directly to me. I also asked
him to send it to the list too. It works fine for me here.
> The original thread started because somebody was pissed
> off by people who start a totally different thread by hitting
> "reply" to any message from the list, changing the subject to
> a totally unrelated one, and off they go.
This sucks hard.
> I am subscribed to lists where people do this to start a new
> thread and don't even change the subject. Linux lists, not
> ones for IT-challenged people.
Yep, it's a linux-list I was talking about, too. Today, a japanese
member of this particular list sent his question in japanese encoding,
in other words, just a load of crappy characters. I wonder what those
guys are thinking.
> Again, don't waste your time trying to fix this.
Well, the patch I mentioned above does the job, it brings some cleanup
into the particular mailbox.
> The only solution is, whenever this happen, reply on the list,
> politely but firmly, and point out how irritating this is.
Hey, *this* doesn't work, and you know that. Especially IT related
people are most often very convinced of themselves, and they get really
pissed if somebody corrects them! You know, everybody thinks he's the
best! (Not possible anyway, because I am the best! SCNR)
In this list there, it is dangerous anyway to say something, I am
currently only lurker. But I must say, they don't really know about what
they're writing either.
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Once one guy complained about not being able to remove a file as root.
He tried rm -rf blah.tar.gz for 20(!!) hours (he mentioned this in the
list!). Then, after others pointing to not use "-r" and such stuff, he
wrote another mail to the list. There, he said he just mistyped the
filename and wasted so much time on this! Niveau below zero.
And that's just one of several stories ...
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> Usually many other people agree, and, for a while, people mind
> their manners a bit more.
Forget it. Not so-called-linux-professionals.
CU
André
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A 250 pound woman's gems!
