Sorry about the top-posting, excess snippage, and whatever else is annoying you about my message style. I've said before that I am forced to use a crappy mail client at work, currently Outlook '03, previously Outlook XP for a brief time and before that Groupwise 6.0. Groupwise did nothing to help with indenting and putting the nice little ">" symbol or anything else at the beginning of the line of the previous poster's message. By default Outlook doesn't either. I thought I had it all tricked out in Outlook XP and then I got a new system image whipped out on me. Lost all my user settings, .sigs, even custom address book, no biggy. More signs of why not to use MS crap when you don't have to. But I have no choice while at work and do my best with getting info, answers and questions to the list when I have time amoungst all this crappy software to think about Linux. I try to trim extra email addresses, PGP signatures, maillist tag lines, sigs, and cruft that is not pertinant. I even try to use good grammar, punctuation, spelling and use a little coherent thought in my messages. Whether top or bottom posting, I feel my messages are readable and you can follow the thought patterns if you are following a mail thread. Who actually comes in on something in the middle of a conversation and expects to understand an issue without seeing the original message?
The WTF message was suppose to go to Luke-Jr only, since I didn't understand his meaning of "federated MX". I still don't. Don't get on people for too much trimming when you did the exact same thing in your postings. You trimmed all of Frank's lucid post except for what was relevant. Makes sense to me, but it is the exact thing you got pissed at me about. I know Tom just likes to poke you with a stick when maillist standards come up, but you act as if I and other users top-post, bottom post, trim or whatever in order to confuse, obfuscate, or piss you off. That could not be further from the truth. I just want to get ideas out there, get things fixed and move on.
But that is not the issue, the broken MX record, if that is the problem, is the issue, let's concentrate on fixing that.
-----Original Message----- From: On Behalf Of Jason Clinton Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 2:51 PM
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 14:25 -0600, Frank Wiles wrote:
I certainly understand your frustration, but instead of getting
angry
about it, just do what I do. If I can't read the E-mail, I move
on...
I appreciate your tempered response and a more rational approach to the issue however, I find that I can not just let it slide. I am personally invested in the vitality of the local Linux community. In the past 3 <blah, blah snip>
So, I would appreciate it if people would try to avoid being inconsiderate of others. Every mailing to this list is on permanent record and, more importantly, has a lasting effect on those who read it. Please consider the consequences, however small, when you hit send.