On 14.09.15 10:01, Sven Wesley wrote: > A few questions at cnczone have been unanswered and I've replied that > the OP should join the mailing list to get an answer. Every time I've > got shitty replies about being an arse and mailing lists are from the > stone age. One thread ended with the OP getting help from someone with > a bit of a ranting and I replied "good, document your solution in the > wiki". Guess what, nothing happened. To me that's a > serve-me-when-I-want-brat-attitude. If I gave the person a clue where > to get an answer and then he acts like an arse, who is the real arse?
This over-the-hill contributor doesn't do fora, partly to avoid those ungrateful narcissists who e.g. complain about a command-line solution, because they're expecting a mouse-clicky one. The major reason, though, is that one has to log in to use a forum. That is not a tolerable imposition. Oh, ISTR that there are ads on some fora. That doesn't appeal either. With mutt, mail threads can be initially displayed collapsed, with any you've contributed to shown in a different colour. That makes it _damn_ simple to find the conversations you're involved in, whether giving or receiving information. On some other lists, such as binutils, I'm only interested in a fraction of 1% of traffic, and only rarely contribute. There, whole threads are deleted with one ^D, costing me little time or effort to remain abreast of what's happening to the toolchain I use. Once the maillists I'm on disappear, I think I'll just stay out on the farm, where there's no internet, and grow roots. Erik -- I have long felt that most computers today do not use electricity. They instead seem to be powered by the "pumping" motion of the mouse! - William Shotts, Jr. on http://linuxcommand.org/learning_the_shell.ph ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
