On Wed 11 Nov 2015 at 08:12:11 -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:38:53 -0500 > Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > >Lisi Reisz composed on 2015-11-11 12:36 (UTC): > > > >>> Pasting logs and configs into email puts it wasting space in the mailing > >>> list archive forever. > > > >>> Pastebinning is temporary, a week or month or whatever the particular > >>> paste > >>> host is configured for. > > > >> Yes, so the archives are incomplete. For shorter things it is surely > >> better > >> that they should be in the email and therefore available to those who > >> search > >> the archives. /boot/grub/grub.cfg certainly counts as short in this > >> context > >> and I think it should therefore be in the email and searchable. > > > >Ray's Xorg.0.log post was 38kb. His grub.cfg post was 26kb. I consider both > >much too long to wade through in email archive searches. Help posts of under > >10kb are nearly always more than sufficient. > > > >Of course what any subscriber thinks doesn't really matter. Whatever a list's > >rules permit is technically OK, even to including binary attachments, which I > >usually delete unread, often even when sent from people in my address book. > > I have to agree with Felix here. The more logs to wade through, the > less likely it will help someone else down the road. Have any of us
The less information provided, the easier it is to help someone? > waded through all the logs just from this post? If so, congratulations! > You are much more patient than myself. Your lack of patience says nothing about the usefulness of the logs.
