Jamin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How exactly is my MUA broken?
>
> I've included the original text of the message I've responded to. I've
> simply chosen not to add anything to the beginning of each line of the
> original message.
Hence the breakage. Netiquette dictates that replies be identified by
prefacing each line with '> ' or '>' -- many peoples' MUAs highlight text
by looking for these markers. It makes reading your mail much more difficult
for the rest of us.
> If you see the questions of users on this list as bothersome, I'm sorry.
Most of us don't mind users asking questions, after they have made a
reasonable effort to understand the problem themselves, by doing _all_ of
the following:
-read all the documentation that comes with qmail, preferably at
least twice. This includes the man pages and other text documentation.
-especially read Dan's FAQs (the one included with the source, and
the one at cr.yp.to)
-read the various hints & tips at www.qmail.org, and the various
user-contributed documentation that are referenced there
-read "Life with qmail" by Dave Sill
-read through the archives of this list for people with similar
problems in the past. We've seen all of these questions.
Anyone who posts one of the most-commonly asked questions to the list,
without having done all the above, is (in effect) saying "My time is more
valuable than the time of the people I am asking for help". Some people tend
to get a little annoyed at this type of attitude.
Charles
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