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Re: Worse then useless replies (was Re: Use 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.)



On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:08:29AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On 3/7/07, pinniped <cirilo_bernardo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Use 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.  Even this will not necessarily be successful
>     on the first pass and you may have to run it up to 3 times.
> 
> 
> Top posting is frowned on here because it tends to mangle context.  But so much
> worse is deleting everything you're replying to AND changing the Subject to
> boot, which doesn't just mangle context but removes it entirely.  While your
> replies MIGHT be helpful to the specific poster to whom you're replying (and
> even that's iffy, given how you routinely change the Subject), they are no use
> at all in the archive.
> 
> So, please, keep some context and only change the Subject if you're actually
> changing the subject (in which case you should really start a new thread).
> 
> Just trying to help you to be helpful,
> Patrick
it seem more than a few of us regulars have tried to be 'helpful' and
he/she seems to think this mail list reply method _is_ helpful. Not much
more we can do.
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