Re: Key words, please [was: Newbie comments & queries]Newbie #61
Wendell & Andrew,
I take the point that you are making, but I had retained the
original header for a specific reason.
It is obvious that many posts to the list are from experienced
linux users querying relatively obstruse points who are not, as I
am, a first-time user with linux experience measured in single
digit numbers of weeks still. Regretfully, therefore, only my own
posts and replies thereto are of interest to me at present. I can
contribute nothing to others and cannot even understand their
problems at this stage.
Under this header several people have rallied to provide valuable
assistance for which I am so grateful you could not even begin to
imagine. Thanks to Brenda, Karsten, dman, and others, I shall get
my Linux email box up and running whatever the headers on my
posts.
>From my point of view there are two factors. One is that i live in
the third world effectively 1000 miles up a 2000 mile dirt road,
with a slow dial up connection which seldom exceeds 24000 bps (our
local isp does not have even a 56k modem rack as hardly anybody
even reaches 33.6k connections even. Cable modems and even ISDN
are pie in the sky for most people here. Secondly, my line is so
noisy I am sometimes not able to connect to my ISP for several
days and when I do many many hundreds of emails await me. This
last weekend it took over a minute to download even one email and
I had to give up with over 400 waiting in the queue. I cannot read
all of these messages en-masse and so filter out and delete
anyhing other than those with my standard header.
I thought that this was a reasonable solution. However, I have
given the matter some thought and will see if a new header scheme
will be more effective and useful to all.
Regards
Ian
Ian Balchin
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