From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E8L0a-0005Iu-V3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:55:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7PGrEqt004962; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:53:14 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.195]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7PGlqbY014002 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:47:53 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so237288nzc for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:49:07 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=q2AWHb/4r6RmJyGQbPR+DTllReWRksXf9eYNJJfC4eKSna39vtpAQ/iiWg80ygx31ZhCTa3173Nb1B3iBl10s+n7G0HGIhMcTUL7BPDruWy4X1+EpFQXvJpnWszhclX84UH7V0WzZuHeeYfkt69lCd1YXKHMsp6+X8vE0qSwIiM= Received: by 10.36.65.13 with SMTP id n13mr110911nza; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:49:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.7.13 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:49:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <558b73fb0508250949630ad55b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:49:07 -0400 From: Michael Crute To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description? In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_3988_21372895.1124988547590" References: <20050823112654.GA31003@lugmen.org.ar> <430CD9AF.4030204@pbp.net> <430CE320.8020905@gt.rr.com> <200508242145.02046.mcbrides9@comcast.net> <430CF807.9020700@pbp.net> X-Archives-Salt: 93fe7cf7-4c7d-4a24-8808-07be03da77e2 X-Archives-Hash: 96e7db567ff3e9b511627ce2c2ee38a5 ------=_Part_3988_21372895.1124988547590 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 8/25/05, A. Khattri wrote: >=20 >=20 > No you're not - there's no excuse for not being polite and considerate of > others when posting. And that includes not top-posting and trimming your > quoted part to only what is necessary for context. Unfortunately most > people are too lazy to bother trimming anything so you end up with longer > and longer posts. >=20 > Some of us have to pay for bandwidth and longer posts just eat up more of > it than necessary. >=20 >=20 Indeed, as previously stated I'm sorry. I simply didn't know that top=20 posting and not trimming the message was so offensive. I cleaned up my act= =20 people just need to go harass the rest of the people on this list who are= =20 guilty of the same things. And for the record I was not trolling, I was=20 TRYING to be helpful. -Mike --=20 ________________________________ Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware. "In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?" ------=_Part_3988_21372895.1124988547590 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 8/25/05, A. Khattri <ajai@bway.net> wrote:

No you're not - there's no excuse for not being polite and considerate = of
others when posting. And that includes not top-posting and trimming y= our
quoted part to only what is necessary for context. Unfortunately mos= t
people are too lazy to bother trimming anything so you end up with long= er
and longer posts.

Some of us have to pay for bandwidth and lon= ger posts just eat up more of
it than necessary.


Indeed, as previously stated I'm sorry. I simply didn't know that top posting and not trimming the message was so offensive. I cleaned up my act people just need to go harass the rest of the people on this list who are guilty of the same things. And for the record I was not trolling, I was TRYING to be helpful.

-Mike

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Micha= el E. Crute
Software Developer
SoftGroup Development Corporation
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