On Fri 18 Jan 2019 at 18:10:57 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 18 January 2019 17:20:33 David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 18 Jan 2019 at 16:14:17 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote and > > misquoted Dominik George: […] > > > > > > >The OP posted to each and every user PLUS the list. That is a > > > > > huge no no. Consider yourself advised that us old timers don't > > > > > go for that and never have. Ric > > > > > > +1 from another old timer. And at 84 & as of last week part bionic, > > > Ric is right as rain. > > > > > > > I never saw a mail where they did that. Plonk. > > > > > > I got at least 4 such to me and to the list. If Ric hadn't beat me > > > to it, I was about to write another procmail recipe. Might yet if > > > the OP that started this doesn't desist with spamming all the list > > > members plus posting to the list. > > > > I haven't seen any spam from plataleas plataleas. By "spamming", do > > you mean that you got individually addressed messages duplicating > > their list postings, or something else entirely? > Individually addressed to me, and identical to the posting. I use kmails > dup del frequently, so theres a decent chance I don't have an example.
That's ok: as I said, they're in the web archive. If that's your only complaint, I think the reaction was rather OTT. But you might want to consult your "last rites" thread where https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg00236.html contains a procmail that deduplicates incoming mail. > > > The guy may have had a legit question if one can read thru the haze > > > of a language translator and make sense of it, the translator > > > unfortunately did not leave any sense in the statements. So I never > > > did figure out what the OP was wanting. If the postings in the web archive contain everything that you received duplicates of, then I can't understand why you're talking about a "language translator". The only sentence I can see that one might criticise is: "Where the information is stored on the repository server specifying a package as stable?" If there are native English speakers who can't understand that to mean "Where is the information stored on the repository server specifying a package as stable?", then they're the ones with problems. > > I received messages on the topic given by the subject line, starting > > at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/01/msg00636.html > > concerning the availability of various kernel versions. They were > > answered by Dominik George who eventually suggested that the OP > > check whether their mirror was up to date, and that seemed to be > > appropriate action. Suddenly Ric Moore chimed in with an accusation > > of "spamming", under the same subject: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/01/msg00714.html > > > > I've already deleted all the substantive posts because I'm not that > > deeply into package management, but the archives (starting at the > > msg00636.html address) show the thread just as I saw it. > > So I'm perplexed. Cheers, David.
