Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark David Dumlao wrote: (snippage) Half the fun of Gentoo is knowing that you're kinda on your own. Hmm - I think the point of this community is that you are anything but on your own. The (many) other posters have been trying to help you realize that you are much more likely to discover

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Stroller > wrote: >> You are not stupid. I think your use of English is excellent, you just have >> to decide upon how you wish to present yourself. > > Stroller, all I can say is that you are reading too

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Stroller
On 23 Dec 2008, at 00:47, Mark David Dumlao wrote: ... Stroller, all I can say is that you are reading too much into my posts and trying to second-guess my intentions. ... If you're that emotionally invested in getting offended by my style, then have a nice day. That's right. Because it couldn

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Oh and just to make it clear once and for all, I was perfectly fine with the idea that my problems might go ignored, and in fact my running assumption all this time was that nobody knew or was interested in my particular problems. That's how mailing lists work. Sometimes you win, sometimes you los

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 23 Dezember 2008, Arttu V. wrote: > > since the 2.0 disaster. Since then I am a happy KDE-only user. > > Not using gnome makes me skip gnome threads automatically - the few > > things I remember back from the 1.4 days won't help anyway. > > I run KDE as well (so maybe I'm biased to com

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Stroller wrote: > You are not stupid. I think your use of English is excellent, you just have > to decide upon how you wish to present yourself. Stroller, all I can say is that you are reading too much into my posts and trying to second-guess my intentions. Yes I

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Arttu V.
On 12/23/08, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Montag 22 Dezember 2008, Arttu V. wrote: > >> >> *If you're so sure it's the html in his emails, then why don't you >> answer his questions about Gnome?* > > well, I saw his mails - and I did not react to them, because I don't use > gnome Sorry, that

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 23 Dezember 2008, Stroller wrote: > > One reason your post generated so many responses is that *everyone* > has posted once in HTML and been asked not to. not me. And others did not too. Because 'no html' is a common thing for user related mailing lists.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 22 Dezember 2008, Arttu V. wrote: > > *If you're so sure it's the html in his emails, then why don't you > answer his questions about Gnome?* well, I saw his mails - and I did not react to them, because I don't use gnome since the 2.0 disaster. Since then I am a happy KDE-only user. N

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Dec 2008, at 23:18, Stroller wrote: ... I am currently searching my subscription info, the gentoo site, or the mailing list welcome for any hints that html messages are rude or unwanted. I am having some difficulty finding it, that alone is a warning sign that the amount of pre-speciali

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Dec 2008, at 14:51, Mark David Dumlao wrote: ... Go look at the OP and the replies and take an objective look at the words. Whatever the venomous, naggy, pompous, self-righteous - or even injured - attitude it is you might be projecting just isn't present at all. You're mistaken. On 21

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Arttu V.
On 12/22/08, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > no. His mails were ignored because nobody had an answer. Shown by the fact > that nobody complained about his triple posting or html mails. This is my favourite conspiracy theory as well, not the no-html-theories. We've all been through situations where

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Dec 2008, at 18:23, Steven Susbauer wrote: Stroller wrote: ... Mailers should default to plain text unless the user explicitly chooses otherwise. ... Mailers should also default to useful column sizes, which seem to have failed in the case of your last message. Keith Moore's [1] "Reci

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Steven Susbauer
Stroller wrote: > It's a bug because it annoys people. It only tends to annoy me when the > sender has set the text to a size which is unreadable or intrusive on my > monitor (a size which is undoubtedly perfect on the sender's 800x600 > monitor), but it appears to annoy other people more. That the

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Dale
b.n. wrote: > > We -the plain text fans- are the weird ones. > > m. > > > I do a lot of text only to but I do like that one. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 22 Dezember 2008, b.n. wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: > > >> And what's even worse, instead of people concerning about that and how > >> to solve the situation in the future, there is a lot of people giggling > >> and behaving like "OMG H4X0RZ" against the "lame n00b" , ignorin

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> Please. He's completely right in demanding apologies and a swift >> reaction to the problem -because if users cannot access the list due to >> undocumented stuff, it's a problem. > > no, he is absolutly wrong in demanding everything.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread b.n.
Stroller ha scritto: > > On 22 Dec 2008, at 12:59, b.n. wrote: >> ... >>> I don't know what you mean by using the adjective "cold" in relation to >>> the communication error that your mailer posts HTML by default. You >>> should file an upstream bug about that with whomever supplies it. >> >> Why

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread b.n.
Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: > On Montag 22 Dezember 2008, b.n. wrote: > >> The user is complaining of a *damn serious* problem. His emails were >> ignored for an undocumented formatting community rule, and it made >> impossible for him to use the mailing list, without anything alarming >> him

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 22 Dezember 2008, b.n. wrote: > > The user is complaining of a *damn serious* problem. His emails were > ignored for an undocumented formatting community rule, and it made > impossible for him to use the mailing list, without anything alarming > him of the problem until late. no. His ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Dec 2008, at 12:59, b.n. wrote: ... I don't know what you mean by using the adjective "cold" in relation to the communication error that your mailer posts HTML by default. You should file an upstream bug about that with whomever supplies it. Why is posting HTML mail a bug? I don't lik

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Dec 2008, at 11:33, b.n. wrote: Stroller ha scritto: I intended to stay silent, however I feel obliged to balance the posts from brullonu...@gmail.com You could answer to my emails, argumenting in detail. I hope we're not here to "score points", but to understand what to do to solve t

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread b.n.
Stroller ha scritto: > > On 21 Dec 2008, at 09:46, Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> ... On perhaps my third or fourth repost, I found a >> shocking answer: >> >> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht >>> ... >>> You may try by sending a mail using the text format instead of the HTML >>> one

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Stroller
On 21 Dec 2008, at 09:46, Mark David Dumlao wrote: ... On perhaps my third or fourth repost, I found a shocking answer: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht ... You may try by sending a mail using the text format instead of the HTML one. I don't read more than one line when it'

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread b.n.
Stroller ha scritto: > I intended to stay silent, however I feel obliged to balance the posts > from brullonu...@gmail.com You could answer to my emails, argumenting in detail. I hope we're not here to "score points", but to understand what to do to solve the situation. In my humble opinion, just

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Dec 2008, at 01:06, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: Am I the only one here that sees this is a stupid and completely irrelevant thread? HTML mail is like farting when you meet the Queen - you just don't do it. There isn't a rule about it

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Stroller
I intended to stay silent, however I feel obliged to balance the posts from brullonu...@gmail.com On 22 Dec 2008, at 02:46, Willie Wong wrote: ... You are still under one assumption: that if you had sent your e-mail in plain text, you won't be ignored. Granted that you will be ignored less if

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Stroller
I intended to stay silent, however I feel obliged to balance the posts from brullonu...@gmail.com On 22 Dec 2008, at 05:31, Willie Wong wrote: ... But as the thread drags on, your stubborn defense against other posters who request that you drop the subject already because ... *) your voci

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:53:07 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > As I said there aren't even any terms to search for when you're > getting ignored. If I had known that the problem was html mails from > the start, then i would have already corrected the issue before > searching the archive. You're m

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:06:07 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > It doesn't matter that there isn't a formal rule. What matters is > there is no way to find out about the de-facto rule in one of the > standard use-cases of a mailing list - which is to just ask a few > quick questions and filter out

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-22 Thread b.n.
John J. Foster ha scritto: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 09:32:26AM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Dale
Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:39:30PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > >> Well, just do this. *list netiquette* If I recall correctly, if the >> person is set up to get html, that will be in bold. If it is text only >> then they just see the *'s. I have noticed in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:39:30PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > Well, just do this. *list netiquette* If I recall correctly, if the > person is set up to get html, that will be in bold. If it is text only > then they just see the *'s. I have noticed in the past that mine has > done thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:03:36PM +0800, Penguin Lover Mark David Dumlao squawked: > Pompous ass? Personal Vendetta? Pissed off? What world is this? > > One bug report is just an announcement that there is a problem. It > might seem to you that people get on a high horse when they say that, > bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Steven Susbauer
Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 09:16:05PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: >> This is my two cents. Since when someone comes here and posts a html >> message they get told not to use html anyway, why not let them know >> beforehand that html is not the "norm" on this list? I don'

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Dale
Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 09:16:05PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > >> This is my two cents. Since when someone comes here and posts a html >> message they get told not to use html anyway, why not let them know >> beforehand that html is not the "norm" on this list? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 09:16:05PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > This is my two cents. Since when someone comes here and posts a html > message they get told not to use html anyway, why not let them know > beforehand that html is not the "norm" on this list? I don't think it > would hurt

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > So don't be such a pompous ass. We didn't ignore you because we don't > like you. There's never a policy by the gentoo-user mailing list to > automatically, collectively ignore all e-mails sent in HTML. We are > not that well organized. And we

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 09:32:26AM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Dale
Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Eric Martin wrote: > >> I've seen plenty of emails going around requesting people not top-post >> and not to post via html. I don't think it's as big of a problem as >> this thread makes it out to be. While I'm sure some people do ig

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Dale
Mark David Dumlao wrote: > But it is a problem that must be addressed. It doesn't help to boil > the situation into an inaccurate but amusing caricature of the > problem. That's how the many bad interfaces get developed. > > The problem is solved for my case. I'm not going to be using html > mails.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 09:53:07AM +0800, Penguin Lover Mark David Dumlao squawked: > As I said there aren't even any terms to search for when you're > getting ignored. If I had known that the problem was html mails from > the start, then i would have already corrected the issue before > searching

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Arttu V.
On 12/22/08, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > The bug report is not about the clarity of an already-late reminder. > The problem is that it was late for me, it will be late for a few > hundred other posters after me, and it will be late for a few hundred > posters after them unless something is done abo

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Eric Martin wrote: > I don't know if he could have made that any clearer. That being said, > I'm done contributing to spam on the list. Please bottom post and post > in a text only format. For many people (myself included) this is the > first mailing list they j

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Eric Martin
Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Eric Martin wrote: > >> I've seen plenty of emails going around requesting people not top-post >> and not to post via html. I don't think it's as big of a problem as >> this thread makes it out to be. While I'm sure some people do ig

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Eric Martin wrote: > 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). As I said the

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Eric Martin wrote: > I've seen plenty of emails going around requesting people not top-post > and not to post via html. I don't think it's as big of a problem as > this thread makes it out to be. While I'm sure some people do ignore > posts that fall into those c

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Eric Martin
Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Eric Martin 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, w

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Eric Martin
Mark David Dumlao wrote: > But it is a problem that must be addressed. It doesn't help to boil > the situation into an inaccurate but amusing caricature of the > problem. That's how the many bad interfaces get developed. > > The problem is solved for my case. I'm not going to be using html > mails.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Eric Martin 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 pleas

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Mark David Dumlao
But it is a problem that must be addressed. It doesn't help to boil the situation into an inaccurate but amusing caricature of the problem. That's how the many bad interfaces get developed. The problem is solved for my case. I'm not going to be using html mails. But ignoring the problem isn't goin

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Eric Martin
Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > >> Am I the only one here that sees this is a stupid and completely irrelevant >> thread? HTML mail is like farting when you meet the Queen - you just don't do >> it. There isn't a rule about it, it's not an e

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 22 December 2008 03:06:07 Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Am I the only one here that sees this is a stupid and completely > > irrelevant thread? HTML mail is like farting when you meet the Queen - > > you just don't do it. There isn'

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Am I the only one here that sees this is a stupid and completely irrelevant > thread? HTML mail is like farting when you meet the Queen - you just don't do > it. There isn't a rule about it, it's not an exam question and there never > was a f

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 22 December 2008 01:35:41 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:46:31 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > > That was one of the coldest, most invisible, and hardest to > > troubleshoot communication errors I've ever seen. I don't even know > > where to begin. It's like being in a fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:46:31 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > That was one of the coldest, most invisible, and hardest to > troubleshoot communication errors I've ever seen. I don't even know > where to begin. It's like being in a foreign country and being told, > years later, that wearing shoes

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > emm - they are silently ignored by the people, not the system - and usually > someone complains about them - it was just bad luck in your part. It is in this particular case where the people _are_ the system. It just so happens that th

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > >> User Relations bug 251931 > >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251931 > > > > Access Denied > > You are no

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> User Relations bug 251931 >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251931 > > Access Denied > You are not authorized to access bug #251931. > Please press Back and try again.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > User Relations bug 251931 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251931 Access Denied You are not authorized to access bug #251931. Please press Back and try again.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Mark David Dumlao
User Relations bug 251931 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251931

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > almost all linux mailing lists - and almost all technical mailing lists have a > no-html rule. If you decide that fance formating is more important than > readership, you are on your own. Hey I don't need that tone. As I said if I kne

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
btw, it is not about capabilities - it is about willingness. Most people are not willing to deal with the crap that is html-emails. They are no good. They are huge, they are risky, they make everything harder. And no-html is the norm for almost every mailing list (except maybe outlook- express-f

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > That was one of the coldest, most invisible, and hardest to > troubleshoot communication errors I've ever seen. I don't even know > where to begin. It's like being in a foreign country and being told, > years later, that wearing shoes there m

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Mark David Dumlao schrieb: [...] > If the memo appears somewhere, it might have to do with some transient > step of the subscription process. That does make it hard to find now > that I'm looking for it. > > What's up with html e-mails, btw? Most public emails send html e-mail > by default, and on

[gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

2008-12-21 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Hi gentoo-user, The previous week I asked a little something about some gnome problems and was surprised that while other mails were getting responses within hours, even minutes, of posting, I had posted and reposted the same message three times over the span of a week - to no joy. I figured that t