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Re: This is the last war I'm going to fight with you people

Right on, Jamin! :)

Two bits of advice, Glen, if you're still here:
1, don't reply to existing, unrelated threads to ask your questions-- someone who knows about converting filesystems, and therefore may be able to help you, may know nothing about whatever you're replying to, and therefore will ignore the original thread-- including your question. (In case you don't know, in Netscape, emails can be viewed as threads, and unless I (or whoever) expand the thread, I (or whoever) have no clue what's inside of it.) 2, this isn't like true tech support-- most people here don't know everything, but we'll help to what extent we can; we probably don't have the *exact* same setup as you, which makes troubleshooting harder; and also, no offense, but we have other things to do, too. Depending upon what your question is, how much info you provide, and who happens to be checking their mail at the time, you may get an answer immediately, or it may take a little while. Also, depending upon whether there are other resources out there that will help you, or whether it's easier for someone to say, "Oh, just add "This_line_fixes_it" to /etc/fooconf", will determine whether you get a simple "RTFM!" or an answer to your question that is to your liking. 

Do not confuse rudeness with brevity.
If you want to add me to your spam filter now, go ahead. Have fun. I don't really care. However, (and this is not meant to be offensive, but if that's how you take it, that's your problem) if that's how you deal with everyone you deem "rude" or "irritating" or whatever, that's a very childish way to deal with people; that's what little kindergartners say: "You weren't nice to me, so I'm not going to talk to you anymore, so there!" 

Just my  $0.02 USD.

-- Vikki Roemer
"Quod scripsi, scripsi." [Latin, "What I have written, I have written."]

Jamin W. Collins wrote:


On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 14:49:26 -0500
Glen Lee Edwards <glen@fcwm.org> wrote:
In the 2 or 3 months I've been on this list, I've posted several questions. The bulk of the responses I've received have made no attempt to answer my questions, but instead have been rude comments that have nothing to do with the questions. 

Really?  I just made a quick review of original posts by you.  Here's a
bit of a summary.  I only copied the relavent portion of your original
question:

(started new unrelated thread by replying to exsiting thread)
From: Glen Lee Edwards <glenlee@members.fcwm.org>
Subject: ext3 problems
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 15:19:37 -0500 (CDT)

Glen> I'd like to then be able to access the existing files on the
Glen> original hard drive from Woody.  But they're formatted ext3.  Is
Glen> there a way I can format them back to ext2 without losing all the
Glen> data, or does debian have a precompiled 2.4.x kernel that's ready
Glen> for ext3 that I can just do an apt-get upgrade with?

This was clearly answered by:
From: Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>
Date: 21 May 2002 19:58:28 -0500
and:
From: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 22:43:14 +0200
and:
From: Jamin W. Collins <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 15:33:42 -0500
and:
From: Andrew Agno <agno@AI.SRI.COM>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:05:21 -0700 (PDT)

Next post:
(essentially a repost of the first one, again started by responding to an
existing thread)
From: Glen Lee Edwards <glen@fcwm.org>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 16:44:25 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: ext3

Glen> 1) How do I change the ext3 file system to ext2 without wiping out
Glen> the data so woody can access the files?

Glen> 2) Does Debian have a precompiled 2.4 kernel that I can apt-get
Glen> upgrade so that it can pull the files off the ext3 file system?

Was answered by responses to previous question and by direct responses:
From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
Date: 21 May 2002 16:55:52 -0500
and:
From: Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 17:51:17 -0700 (PDT)


Next message
From: Glen Lee Edwards <glen@fcwm.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 23:25:35 -0500
Subject: xemacs background won't show an .xpm file

Glen> Instead of displaying the pixmap I'm getting a solid black
Glen> background.

Appears to have been answered by a few messages back and forth between you
and Glyn Millington, as I quote from your message on Date: Thu, 20 Jun
2002 08:18:01 +0100:
Glen> Sweet! That's what I was looking for! 
(at this point I gave up on looking through my archives)
From now on, if I post a question, any people who respond but who make no attempt to answer the question will be put in my spam filter. I have better things to do than to engage hot heads in worthless debates. 

You obviously have skin too thin for a mailing list if the responses
you've gotten on this list have offended you.  At this point, it would
appear that your complaints are rather unfounded.  If you have specific
examples/instances please provide them.  Otherwise, please grow up. And,
if this offends you, please feel free to add me to your filter. =)





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