Re: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Alon Altman wrote: > > Can anyone remind me why Linux-IL was set up to receive messages from > > non-subscribers (subject to human moderator's approval) in the first > > place? > > > > If there is no good reason, how about reconfiguring the list to reject all > > messages fro

Re: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 17:43, Omer Zak wrote: > Can anyone remind me why Linux-IL was set up to receive messages from > non-subscribers (subject to human moderator's approval) in the first > place? Because some desired messages do come from non-subscribers, such as event notifications or job offer

Re: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Alon Altman
> Can anyone remind me why Linux-IL was set up to receive messages from > non-subscribers (subject to human moderator's approval) in the first > place? > > If there is no good reason, how about reconfiguring the list to reject all > messages from non-subscribers? Then Alex Shnitman will not have t

Re: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Alex Shnitman, from the post of Tue, 11 Feb: > > > > If it's desired, and enough people are willing to take on the job, I > > guess we can set this list up as a moderated list, but I don't think > > that everybody will agree to do this. > > did I

RE: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread linux_il
> > Not to defend the practice of asking a question without being on the > > list, but what about the bigger goal of helping a linux win? > > I see that as a moot issue. Linux has already won. what I Ever heard of "be paranoid"? I wouldn't say that "Linux has won" any time soon, there is a lot

Re: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Alex Shnitman, from the post of Tue, 11 Feb: > > If it's desired, and enough people are willing to take on the job, I > guess we can set this list up as a moderated list, but I don't think > that everybody will agree to do this. did I say we should moderate EVERY post? I just think that o

Re: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 16:09, Ira Abramov wrote: > > This is because Eyal won't find the time to follow the Linux-IL mailing > > list and help other Linux-IL subscribers with their problems, in exchange > > for the help which he is asking for now. > > well, you can also mention the fact that the p

RE: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't mind questions from offlist people, but questions about > > proprietery products with no intereset for the Free Software community > > (nor even, sigh, for OpenSource people), should be filtered out. > > Not to defend the practice of asking

Re: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Eyal Shani wrote: > > > Thanks in advance, and please reply to me direct too as im not in the list. > > ^^^^ > > I urge anyone who spends his valuable time replyin

RE: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread linux_il
> I don't mind questions from offlist people, but questions about > proprietery products with no intereset for the Free Software community > (nor even, sigh, for OpenSource people), should be filtered out. Not to defend the practice of asking a question without being on the list, but what about t

Re: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Omer Zak, from the post of Tue, 11 Feb: > > Thanks in advance, and please reply to me direct too as im not in the list. > > ^^^^ > > I urge anyone who spends his valuable time replying to Eyal (an Oracle > employee, i

"Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Eyal Shani wrote: > Thanks in advance, and please reply to me direct too as im not in the list. ^^^^ I urge anyone who spends his valuable time replying to Eyal (an Oracle employee, if to judge from his