* James.Rocks@equant.com (James.Rocks@equant.com) [020705 03:52]: :: ::And this has precisely what to do with Suse Linux? I'm sure there are more ::appropriate forums for MS bashing! Well, ok..if this is going to become a sterile "ask an precise question get a precise answer list" instead of the community discussion list with topic of SuSE Linux and related matrial then I would suggest a few things that I would love to see happen. 1. Trim email so that it's not pages and pages long. Put only the parts that are being replied to in the email. 2. Use an MUA that doesn't break threads because some of use use real email clients that let us delete whole threads we are not interested in such as " Why doesn't my crappy isp work with kppp" and " Why doesn't my GDI WinPrinter work " 3. Please remember that just hitting reply on a message and changing the subject doesn't start a new thread it screws up the existing thread and throws garbage some of us don't want to read into the mix. 4. Please do NOT email a list user directly. I haven't bitched about it much in the past but I for one am not anyone's personal tech support. If you can not get an answer on the list. Do not email list members directly just because they might be able to answer the question. 5. When you reply to a post please make sure to ONLY have the list address in your message. DO NOT cc or bcc the person who wrote the message. If they wrote the message and it got to the list ..they are on the bloody list and will get the message. That's WAY more annoying the most of what people have bitched about here lately. Getting 2 messages with the same content because people are to damn lazy to click in the little cc box and remove the users address is damn rude. If your client doesn't support the use of procmail to fix this. The get another email client. Don't whine and say " but it's all I have "...when there are tons of free clients that handle mail properly. You new people seem to want to rule the roost. You forget that this list has existed for years before you decided to join the Linux community and you are alienating some of the older users who like the community aspect of it. The reason Linux has come so far in such a short amount of time is because people believe in it..it's almost a zealot belief. The reason this religious belief is good is because it motivates people. Where companies pay people to care and to code. It's only the beliefs in OpenSource that make people spend those 5-6 hours a day after their paying job to code the software you use. Personally I don't like mega off topic disscussions but as long as they are related to Linux and don't go off the deep end thats fine. This isn't a truely moderated list because it's such a broad list. I don't see where the original post was Microsoft bashing. It might have poked a bit of fun, but all in all it was a heads up. I don't really think that off topic Microsoft related stories should show up here. If people want to dig on Microsoft and as well they should for what they've done in the past...the FUD they spread about Linux and prior to that about OS/2. They deserve scorn from anyone. If anyone wants to join a chatter list or post things such as Anti-Microsoft stuff. Please join the lx-talk list. You can email ck@mamalala.de who is the list owner and he will subscribe you. Regards, -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- Tell me what you believe..I tell you what you should see. -DP --=====-----=====--