Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Posting inline

2015-12-12 Thread Nikola M
On 12/13/15 03:46 AM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: I would like to suggest that there just might be a bug in the archive software if posts did not show up properly in the thread hierarchy. It might also be some pathology among MTAs which is confusing the archive software.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Posting inline

2015-12-12 Thread Nikola M
On 12/13/15 05:44 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 12/12/15 07:03 PM, Ian Collins wrote: Both of these appear to be due to incorrectly configured mail clients. The second may be a matter of (bad!) taste. The first, being uncommon, is more than likely a problem with the client. And as annoying

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Posting inline

2015-12-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/12/15 07:03 PM, Ian Collins wrote: Both of these appear to be due to incorrectly configured mail clients. The second may be a matter of (bad!) taste. The first, being uncommon, is more than likely a problem with the client. And as annoying as both may be, is it worse than making the list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Posting inline

2015-12-12 Thread Ian Collins
Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: Nikola, > > First of all, I do not understand what you are trying to say. I > suggest that taking more care in your expression would help. None of > the other respondents seem to have agreed on your intended meaning, > so I don't think I'm alone.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Posting inline

2015-12-12 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
Nikola, First of all, I do not understand what you are trying to say.I suggest that taking more care in your expression would help. None of the other respondents seem to have agreed on your intended meaning, so I don't think I'm alone. I started the SSD swap thread using "compose". In al

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Posting inline

2015-12-12 Thread Nikola M
On 12/13/15 01:24 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: That said, to stop the distraction, I will now filter all messages containing "top posting" to find their new home in "Trash" :P Not to confuse people, it's everyone's mail client thing, not the list issue at all. I issued explanation so that peopl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Posting inline

2015-12-12 Thread Aurélien Larcher
That said, to stop the distraction, I will now filter all messages containing "top posting" to find their new home in "Trash" :P Though... getting rid of these might truncate the [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD as a dedicated swap device

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Posting inline

2015-12-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 13 Dec 2015, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote: rude. As I already said, I simply do not have a choice to switch to a different editor as the only access to the net using this mail address is via OWA. I would happily use Alpine if I could - but I just can't. And if that was reason enough to b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Posting inline

2015-12-12 Thread Nikola M
On 12/13/15 01:00 AM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote: Nicola, Don't you think it might sound a little arrogant to speak out warnings to others on the list just for not being able to inline No it is not. It is arrogant to ignore polite warnings. That is technical problem with your client and if con

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Posting inline

2015-12-12 Thread Stefan Müller-Wilken
Nicola, Don't you think it might sound a little arrogant to speak out warnings to others on the list just for not being able to inline correctly? I can't remember having been destructive, irrelevant or rude. As I already said, I simply do not have a choice to switch to a different editor as the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Posting inline

2015-12-12 Thread Nikola M
On 12/12/15 02:24 AM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: My long standing rule is swap = 8 x core. This is primarily to accommodate having a large number of PDFs and other processes open Hello A bit of a small warning to community members posting on OI mailing lists. Please res

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD as a dedicated swap device

2015-12-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 12 Dec 2015, Ian Collins wrote: Eh? every contemporary desktop/server OS has and uses virtual memory. The need for backing store for swapping is much less these days, but it is still used and supported. Virtual memory is used even when there is no swap device. For example, it is us

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD as a dedicated swap device

2015-12-12 Thread Jason Matthews
Funny. I recommend getting more ram. Ram is cheap, compared to the past. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 11, 2015, at 5:24 PM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > My long standing rule is swap = 8 x core. This is primarily to accommodate > having a large number of PDFs and