On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 07:21 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Default User wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. Btw, I noticed you have > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > > in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. > > Would ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free work > > just as well? > > > > Not to start a techno flame war, but what is better, ftp or http? > > > > Although I noticed this posting yesterday, I did not respond because I > don't know the answer, and so I waited for someone else to provide the > answer. But they can't do that, because as I noticed this morning, you > replied privately to me rather than publicly to the list. > > As a general rule, private replies are discouraged on this list for > several reasons, one of them being just this issue that I described: > sometimes the person to whom you're replying doesn't have an answer, > whereas someone else on the list may. Another big reason for replying to > the list is so that others seeking the same information can see the > dialog. A third reason for replying to the list is so that the > conversation will be archived for future needs. > > So I've re-routed this reply to the list; hopefully someone can answer > your question. > > -- > Kent > >
Sorry! I did not realize that I had sent a private reply. I just clicked reply, thinking it would go to debian-user@lists.debian.org by default, and I was too stupid to check the "from:" selection. Again, my apologies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
