On Friday 09 June 2006 17:35, Mike McMullin wrote:
First off, if you hijack a thread that someone is ignoring then you won't get their input and it might be exactly what you are looking for.
Basil didn't hijack a thread, Mike, he opened up three consecutive threads discussing his problems with the package management / updater stack. Apparently, neither he nor Dimitris recognize that this is inefficient and fairly rude. This point is succinctly framed by your next comment:
If you want someone's help then you ought to make it easy for them [to] help you.
Which was my motive in correcting Basil in the first place... make it easier for people to grasp the scope and facts of your problem and you're more likely to be helped. When someone sees that they must 'weed through' multiple threads from the same person to 'cherry pick' out meaningful facts, it becomes much easier to simply ignore and delete the posts and hope that person gets a clue about how to frame and ask questions on the list... any list, not just SLE. So, thanks for expressing my motivation in clearer terms. regards, Carl -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com