Re: Unification of discussion-forum types (was Re: signing up to fourms)

2022-10-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 08:57:54AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: If that doesn't happen in practice, I'd be all for the idea, but as far as I can recall I have yet to encounter a case where it doesn't. We already get too many examples of people failing to quote correctly even here on this mailing li

Re: signing up to fourms

2022-10-19 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 23:54 Bruce H. wrote: ... > Am I going to have to find another distro or can you all get your shit > together I'm sorry you felt you had to resort to gutter language. That doesn't help your cause. -Tom

Unification of discussion-forum types (was Re: signing up to fourms)

2022-10-19 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-10-19 at 08:28, Dan Ritter wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:54 PM Bruce H. wrote: >> >> > Why do you have to make it so hard to sign up to the user forums? >> > Auto gen passwords do not work, and the requirements are excessive! >> > >> >> Was previously una

Re: signing up to fourms

2022-10-19 Thread Dan Ritter
Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:54 PM Bruce H. wrote: > > > Why do you have to make it so hard to sign up to the user forums? > > Auto gen passwords do not work, and the requirements are excessive! > > > > Was previously unaware Debian had a web forum. Why bother when we have

Re: signing up to fourms

2022-10-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:54 PM Bruce H. wrote: > Why do you have to make it so hard to sign up to the user forums? > Auto gen passwords do not work, and the requirements are excessive! > Was previously unaware Debian had a web forum. Why bother when we have mailing lists that have none of the

Re: signing up to fourms

2022-10-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 04:30:22AM +, Bruce H. wrote: Hi Bruce, > Why do you have to make it so hard to sign up to the user forums? Much of Debian is conducted via email and mailing lists. Some of the reasons for this are historical - we've been doing this for 29 years - and some are practi

Re: signing up to fourms

2022-10-19 Thread Maude Summerside
On 2022-10-19 05:34, Frank wrote: > Op 19-10-2022 om 11:16 schreef Curt: >> On 2022-10-19, Bruce H. wrote: >> >>> Am I going to have to find another distro or can you all get your >>> shit together so I can join the forums and use a Debian distro? >> >> You don't need to join anything. Just po

Re: signing up to fourms

2022-10-19 Thread Frank
Op 19-10-2022 om 11:16 schreef Curt: On 2022-10-19, Bruce H. wrote: Am I going to have to find another distro or can you all get your shit together so I can join the forums and use a Debian distro? You don't need to join anything. Just point your newsreader to 'news.gmane.io'; 'gmane.linux.

Re: signing up to fourms

2022-10-19 Thread Curt
On 2022-10-19, Bruce H. wrote: > Am I going to have to find another distro or can you all get your shit > together so I can join the forums and use a Debian distro? You don't need to join anything. Just point your newsreader to 'news.gmane.io'; 'gmane.linux.debian.user'. Anyhow, maybe if you

Re: signing up to fourms

2022-10-18 Thread john doe
On 10/19/22 06:30, Bruce H. wrote: Why do you have to make it so hard to sign up to the user forums? If you do not like it, feel free to make the signing process easier. The more contributers the better it will be! -- John Doe

Re: signing up to fourms

2022-10-18 Thread tomas
On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 04:30:22AM +, Bruce H. wrote: [...] > Am I going to have to find another distro or can you all get your shit > together so I can join the forums and use a Debian distro? You might want to work on your social skills. This won't lead to people feeling motivated to hel

signing up to fourms

2022-10-18 Thread Bruce H.
Why do you have to make it so hard to sign up to the user forums? Auto gen passwords do not work, and the requirements are excessive! Antispam question #1 makes no sense. No (show text) for passwords. Confirmation item (shield for window) makes no sense. I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING SO STUPID. (67yr o