From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RDmGg-0005Z1-4j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:01:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B5AA21C1FB; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:01:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 788AC21C08D for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwg14 with SMTP id 14so182759wwg.10 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:00:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Mbr6fNrPkZLMf5HR4e5cuVV1CCp8PAEdszAMv2TEAIY=; b=BXHZgCAA+XV0tQoOmFSw7fzk5wUNk7ura9JKMA563zH1JTvqKjU9SIdtCDirShB1QB eBFMju8eR33URWNjbTysOxFsiSs9IBwAUGDcWRuyf0hxloqvSILphvv23+pVX6F0rqn4 SG9eRy+4fe6rUz3lhQzNcqP+wU3vfwjlq1RbI= Received: by 10.227.13.67 with SMTP id b3mr1973120wba.61.1318377642653; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:00:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rohan.example.com ([196.215.144.38]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id es10sm483212wbb.4.2011.10.11.17.00.40 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:00:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:00:31 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: this is spam (was: Re: [gentoo-user] =?UTF-8?B?5Zue5aSN77ya?= [gentoo-user] Anyone can afford information about build kernel?) Message-ID: <20111012020031.7aa22ef5@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20111011130327.3bcf7ecd@toxic.dbnet> <20111011135112.1b670ab6@toxic.dbnet> <201110111354.25894.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20111011170819.6a5f2087@toxic.dbnet> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 58a16fbe6ce0d1f2f0d66bbf7fe08baa On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:16:56 -0400 Matthew Finkel wrote: > I understand why you would think the OP is a spammer, but the topic > just seems too genuine (to me at least) for this to actually be spam. > It definitely would have been more polite if Lavender had replied to > the other suggestions, but (assuming the thread is not spam) you > don't know what is going on in their life and it may take a few days > to respond. Just because the person is from China, doesn't mean we > should assume they're a spammer (following Alan's last reply). Dealing with foreign users can be interesting, triply so if they are not European/Caucasian. I have about 150 or so technical users throughout Africa (Nigerians are especially interesting) and their Support requests routinely end up in spam folders. These are ISP employees, you'd think the mail lines would work smoothly. Ah, not so. Until you work with foreign cultures you won't believe the many varied ways communication can veer off course. In some cultures it's considered rude for a junior to respond in any way to a senior (replies have to go through intermediaries). -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com