Re: Literal postings, was Re: Wanted - Debian(preferred)/Linux handheld

2018-08-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 01:30:42PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > This list has a completely different philosophy, see: > https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ > It's unmoderated A blatantly salacious assertion to entrap rebellious 12 year olds masquerading as adults [absolutely NO similarity to

Re: Literal postings, was Re: Wanted - Debian(preferred)/Linux handheld

2018-08-19 Thread David Wright
On Sun 19 Aug 2018 at 08:30:40 (+0200), Anders Andersson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 6:42 PM, David Wright > wrote: > > > > . A lot of OPs provide very little background information. Sometimes > > this may be because they don't know what *is* relevant, but often a > > thread turns into an

Re: Literal postings, was Re: Wanted - Debian(preferred)/Linux handheld

2018-08-19 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 6:42 PM, David Wright wrote: > > . A lot of OPs provide very little background information. Sometimes > this may be because they don't know what *is* relevant, but often a > thread turns into an episode of "Twenty Questions" because of what > seems like a reluctance to

Re: Literal postings, was Re: Wanted - Debian(preferred)/Linux handheld

2018-08-18 Thread Brian
On Sat 18 Aug 2018 at 12:31:38 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 08/18/2018 11:42 AM, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 18 Aug 2018 at 10:02:39 (+0200), Anders Andersson wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Richard Owlett > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > P.S. I wish my initial posts be taken

Re: Literal postings, was Re: Wanted - Debian(preferred)/Linux handheld

2018-08-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 08/18/2018 11:42 AM, David Wright wrote: On Sat 18 Aug 2018 at 10:02:39 (+0200), Anders Andersson wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: P.S. I wish my initial posts be taken literally. I wish this for every question on the mailing list but sadly that rarely

Literal postings, was Re: Wanted - Debian(preferred)/Linux handheld

2018-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Sat 18 Aug 2018 at 10:02:39 (+0200), Anders Andersson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > P.S. I wish my initial posts be taken literally. > > I wish this for every question on the mailing list but sadly that > rarely happens, leading to a lot of pointless