I should be in bed - as should Carlos :) but for one reason or the other I'm not. I based my comments on the pages I read while joining the list. To be useful the final mail must contain the problem and the solution otherwise there is no point in searching list archives. The word fixed helps too and who am I to delete the source of the fix. Anyway thanks to Patrick. I've asked a few suse specific questions on here and this is the 1st time I've had a useful answer - even though it may not be suse specific issue. One question resulted in a huge volume of mail that had no relation what so ever to the original question. That sort of thing has much more effect on the volume of traffic and makes the thread useless too. It happens from time to time. eg what's the point in the current IRC thread - basically a total lack of discipline in relation to what this list is intended for. John On Wednesday 11 June 2008 23:50:15 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Wednesday 2008-06-11 at 23:14 +0100, John wrote:
On Wednesday 11 June 2008 22:17:50 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* John <> [06-11-08 17:12]:
The notes on this list suggest continually adding to mails. That way people can follow the progress and see the fix if there is one.
odd, I don't see that: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette#Quoting
In a round about way it suggests that sigs should only contain a name but then reluctantly allows a limited extended sig. On other mailing list I usually use the version of software that I am using as part of my sig. On cups it would include my cups version too and so on. All relevant information.
No.
We are telling you that when you reply you should delete as much of the original email you are replying to is possible. Specially the signature of the previous mail should be deleted - and you are not doing so.
He also told you that it is not true what you said "The notes on this list suggest continually adding to mails". It is rather the contrary.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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