Re: Broadcom Wireless on Fedora 14 (was Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33)

2011-02-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/15/2011 01:37 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > I'm sorry that it appeared to be personal, but that's one problem with > threading - you have to attach to something, and it tends to be the last > message in the thread that catches it when such a general comment is made. > Since your story was not part

Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33 {Posting Error}

2011-02-15 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 00:08 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Trying to automatically detect a full quoting of the > digest ...[snip]... is much more of a pain than it is worth. Well, Steve Gibson did that with his news server. It assessed your post, on the way in, and rejected postings with too muc

Re: Broadcom Wireless on Fedora 14 (was Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33)

2011-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 14 February 2011 19:05:36 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/11/2011 12:38 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Why is it that some people on this list think it clever to publicly > > humiliate? Gentle reminders off-list are so much more effective. > > The story wasn't meant to humiliate or otherwise chastis

Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33 {Posting Error}

2011-02-14 Thread Todd Zullinger
Hi suvayu, suvayu ali wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Todd Zullinger > wrote: >> Using the MIME-style digests makes this trivial in most email >> clients. We set this style of digest as the default for this list >> a few months or so ago.  The Mailman default is to send plain text >> d

Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33 {Posting Error}

2011-02-14 Thread Todd Zullinger
Tim wrote: > I really wish there were some automatic function to restrict replies > to digests. If you full quote, you get rejected. If you reply with > a digest subject line, you get rejected. We do automatically moderate posts with the digest in the subject. Trying to automatically detect a fu

Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33 {Posting Error}

2011-02-14 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Todd, On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: >> On Friday 11 February 2011 19:47:11 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> Just to be clear: changing the Subject line is *not enough* (same >>> comment also applies to those who hijack threads). It's important >>> to

Re: Broadcom Wireless on Fedora 14 (was Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33)

2011-02-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 20:38 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > Why is it that some people on this list think it clever to publicly > humiliate? Gentle reminders off-list are so much more effective. If the idea was to humiliate, I wouldn't have used a euphemism. Aside from that, whether private communic

Re: Broadcom Wireless on Fedora 14 (was Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33)

2011-02-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/11/2011 12:38 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > Why is it that some people on this list think it clever to publicly humiliate? > Gentle reminders off-list are so much more effective. The story wasn't meant to humiliate or otherwise chastise the OP; it was just a story about a badly-configured mailin

Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33 {Posting Error}

2011-02-14 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 10:42 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > For anyone subscribing to the digests and planning to reply to > messages, I would recommend checking on your list options page that > you're using the MIME-style digests. The digest will then include > each message as an individual messag

Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33 {Posting Error}

2011-02-14 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 07:59 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > >On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 11:57 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: > >> Rohit Farmer wrote: > >> > > >> >Got the answer to activate the wireless card on Dell laptops (M501R) in > >> >Fedora 14 using Broadcom Card.

Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33 {Posting Error}

2011-02-14 Thread Todd Zullinger
Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 11 February 2011 19:47:11 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> Just to be clear: changing the Subject line is *not enough* (same >> comment also applies to those who hijack threads). It's important >> to reply correctly to the message so as to preserve RFC-standard >> thread

Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33 {Posting Error}

2011-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 11 February 2011 19:47:11 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 11:57 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: > > Rohit Farmer wrote: > > >Got the answer to activate the wireless card on Dell laptops (M501R) in > > >Fedora 14 using Broadcom Card. > > > > > >Use the driver given in the

Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33 {Posting Error}

2011-02-14 Thread James Mckenzie
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 11:57 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: >> Rohit Farmer wrote: >> > >> >Got the answer to activate the wireless card on Dell laptops (M501R) in >> >Fedora 14 using Broadcom Card. >> > >> >Use the driver given in the following link and follow the read

Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33 {Posting Error}

2011-02-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 11:57 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: > Rohit Farmer wrote: > > > >Got the answer to activate the wireless card on Dell laptops (M501R) in > >Fedora 14 using Broadcom Card. > > > >Use the driver given in the following link and follow the readme file to > >install. > > > >http://

Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33

2011-02-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 19:12 +, g wrote: > On 02/11/2011 06:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Please don't reply to digests, and especially don't reply to digests > and > > quite the entire fscking digest in your message (which will now show > up > > all over again in the next digest). > >

Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33

2011-02-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/11/2011 11:12 AM, g wrote: > On 02/11/2011 06:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> > Please don't reply to digests, and especially don't reply to digests and >> > quite the entire fscking digest in your message (which will now show up >> > all over again in the next digest). > 2 words miss

Broadcom Wireless on Fedora 14 (was Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33)

2011-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 11 February 2011 19:27:15 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/11/2011 10:50 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Please don't reply to digests, and especially don't reply to digests and > > quite the entire fscking digest in your message (which will now show up > > all over again in the next digest). >

Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33 {Posting Error}

2011-02-11 Thread James Mckenzie
Rohit Farmer wrote: > >Got the answer to activate the wireless card on Dell laptops (M501R) in >Fedora 14 using Broadcom Card. > >Use the driver given in the following link and follow the readme file to >install. > >http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php > Answer to WHAT? Please use

Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33

2011-02-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/11/2011 10:50 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Please don't reply to digests, and especially don't reply to digests and > quite the entire fscking digest in your message (which will now show up > all over again in the next digest). It could be worse, and it has been. About fifteen years ago

Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33

2011-02-11 Thread g
On 02/11/2011 06:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Please don't reply to digests, and especially don't reply to digests and > quite the entire fscking digest in your message (which will now show up > all over again in the next digest). 2 words misspelled. :) > Reply only to the specific message

Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33

2011-02-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
Please don't reply to digests, and especially don't reply to digests and quite the entire fscking digest in your message (which will now show up all over again in the next digest). Reply only to the specific message within the digest (most mail clients support this). Also, don't top-post. See the

Re: users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 33

2011-02-11 Thread Rohit Farmer
Got the answer to activate the wireless card on Dell laptops (M501R) in Fedora 14 using Broadcom Card. Use the driver given in the following link and follow the readme file to install. http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php Rohit 2011/2/11 > Send users mailing list submissions