On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Willie Wong <ww...@princeton.edu> wrote: > So don't be such a pompous ass. We didn't ignore you because we don't > like you. There's never a policy by the gentoo-user mailing list to > automatically, collectively ignore all e-mails sent in HTML. We are > not that well organized. And we are certainly not the borg collective. > It is a lot more likely that your query received no response because > no one know how to answer or how to diagnose your problem. > > What do you in fact propose the FAQ say? That we prefer plain-text > emails? Or that "if you post in HTML, there's a chance that some > members may ignore your posts"? It sounds to me from this thread that > you are advocating more of the latter rather than the former (that you > are pissed off because your post may have been ignored because of > formatting and not of content). And to me a warning like that is just > plain silly. You can equally well add a disclaimer that "Joerg > Schilling will chew you out if you use cdrkit instead of cdrtools" > (Joerg, no disrespect meant at all by that, just stating a fact that > you will in fact do so). > > So you are pissed that you got ignored. Well, tough. Stop making it > sound like hordes of people have came before you and were ignored > because of their HTML e-mails, and that unless this reform passes > hordes more of people will suffer the same fate. It just ain't true. > While I agree that it may be a good idea to have an FAQ somewhere > for the mailing lists discussion basic netiquette, your rather > personal vendetta is blowing this way out of proportion. Pompous ass? Personal Vendetta? Pissed off? What world is this?
One bug report is just an announcement that there is a problem. It might seem to you that people get on a high horse when they say that, but a lot of us like solving problems. It's the first few reactions here that were too pompous for taste. Why, the OP was a _question_.
