Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-27 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To GC: I can really understand you well! I'm also fed up with this quoting > style (cf. Newbie mailing list, 1-2 weeks ago, thread: Text goes on top) > (actually, David is the wrong person to barf at. He's doing very fine, at > least compared to ma

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 04:26:48PM -0700, Anton Graham wrote: > Submitted 26-Jul-00 by David Walluck: > > But as I understand Mutt is no better at this. > > Mutt allows you to use any editor you wish, but defaults to vi. No, it doesn't default to vi IIRC. It conforms to the general standard, wh

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 07:17:19PM -0400, David Walluck wrote: > I guess you have never used pico :) You should just to see that it has 12 > commands. That is *it*. But as I understand Mutt is no better at this. But > you will never trully understand how hard it is with pico until you've > tried i

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 26-Jul-00 by David Walluck: > But as I understand Mutt is no better at this. Mutt allows you to use any editor you wish, but defaults to vi. Personally I use Jed as my editor for composing emails. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread David Walluck
On 27 Jul 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Also, if you want to go at the very bottom your editor should provide a > shortcut. I guess you have never used pico :) You should just to see that it has 12 commands. That is *it*. But as I understand M

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 26 Jul 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > "Thomas M. Beaudry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > My sentiments exactly. Back when I started, correct netiquette was to put your > > > reply at the top so people didn't have to scroll down loo

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, first let me say that I think your posts amount to a flame. This is No I'm sorry this is not a flame. This is a fedup because many people are not respecting "commonly agreed netiquette", and that makes me waste time (and more important, miss import

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I hope all this is not an attempt to get me to switch to gnus. In fact, I > read the gnus HOWTO on your site a couple days ago, and though I'd like to > try it... emacs has far too many sortcuts for me to remember! Then again > vi is bad about that,

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread David Walluck
On 26 Jul 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > "Thomas M. Beaudry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My sentiments exactly. Back when I started, correct netiquette was to put your > > reply at the top so people didn't have to scroll down looking for it. > > Complete nonsense! If you want to not

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread David Walluck
On 26 Jul 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > No, if it's a general reply you should remove everything (the good > version) (because every good mailer as a thread option that enables the > look of the original message), or leave everything and reply at the bottom > (because when I want to read th

Re: [TROLL] [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Francis Galiegue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 26 Jul 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > > > (Please, pine/mutt/etc lovers, use quick and efficient arguments if you > > really feel this is the place for a mailreader flame) (my point is just to > > propose ONE tool to ease the efficiency

Re: [TROLL] [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread Pixel
Francis Galiegue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > and pine is truly lightweight. but pine is not free :-(

RE: [TROLL] [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread Geoffrey Lee
of your emails). > > > > OK, lets troll: pine + vim as alternate editor rocks. No best > editor than vim > and pine is truly lightweight. > yep, just have to love vi, i set it as my default editor for /usr/bin/Mail ... > -- > Francis Galiegue, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Programming is a race betw

[TROLL] [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread Francis Galiegue
On 26 Jul 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > (Please, pine/mutt/etc lovers, use quick and efficient arguments if you > really feel this is the place for a mailreader flame) (my point is just to > propose ONE tool to ease the efficiency and quality of your emails). > OK, lets troll: pine + v

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 25 Jul 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > PS : please quote your answer the right way, e.g. put answers *after* > > questions.. > > Are you talking about where I put my reply? It normally come

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 25 Jul 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > PS : please quote your answer the right way, e.g. put answers *after* > > questions.. > > What? Your original message was: It's good for newbies, but should be extended to expert or developer sectio

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
"Thomas M. Beaudry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My sentiments exactly. Back when I started, correct netiquette was to put your > reply at the top so people didn't have to scroll down looking for it. Complete nonsense! If you want to not quote, please DON'T include the original message in your

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread David Walluck
On 25 Jul 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PS : please quote your answer the right way, e.g. put answers *after* > questions.. Are you talking about where I put my reply? It normally comes after the section I am talking about, but if I just hit "

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread Thomas M. Beaudry
As it was back then. Never email when you're half asleep. On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Don't know about back then, but nowadays you only quote as much as needed

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 03:57:37AM -0400, Thomas M. Beaudry wrote: > My sentiments exactly. Back when I started, correct netiquette was to put your > reply at the top so people didn't have to scroll down looking for it. Don't know about back then, but nowadays you only quote as much as needed (i

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-26 Thread Thomas M. Beaudry
My sentiments exactly. Back when I started, correct netiquette was to put your reply at the top so people didn't have to scroll down looking for it. On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, you wrote: > On 25 Jul 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > PS : please quote your answer the right way, e.g. put answers

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-25 Thread David Walluck
On 25 Jul 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > PS : please quote your answer the right way, e.g. put answers *after* > questions.. What? -- Sincerely, David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-25 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's good for newbies, but should be extended to expert or developer > sections... i.e RPM-HOWTO, how to make an ISO, how to mirror, how to keep > up-to-date... a lot of stuff the cooker website has but in much more > detail as it is a FAQ and FAQ's alw

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-25 Thread David Walluck
It's good for newbies, but should be extended to expert or developer sections... i.e RPM-HOWTO, how to make an ISO, how to mirror, how to keep up-to-date... a lot of stuff the cooker website has but in much more detail as it is a FAQ and FAQ's always have great explanations for the questions for s

Re: [Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 06:02:56PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Hence, we (Geoffrey Lee, Guillaume Cottenceau) have decided on the idea of > the "Cooker-FAQ" which will be available: Good idea! I like it. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail?

[Cooker] Introducing the cooker-faq

2000-07-25 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Hello fellow cookers, :-) The cooker list is a place to discuss the latest cooker distribution, while this can allow developpers to interact closely with Mandrake users, it also means that there may be users screaming to get things fixed, discussing what to do with broken packages, and developper