>>>>> "David" == David Pastern <david@scsenterprises.com.au> writes: David> Ok for those that have replied to my post - David> 1. I'm relatively new to linux in general and totally new to David> Debian I hope that we'll be able to convince you that this list is, on the whole, more helpful and more polite than what you may have seen in other Linux forums. Just remember that there we will always have jerks on this list, and that we are all volunteers, and our time and abilities are limited, so the amount of help that we can give out will be limited. [...] David> 9. The sheer scope of inbound emails is enormous. It's hard to David> keep up with them all, and I think that's what the gentleman David> mentioned in point 2. was feeling. Had he stayed around for an answer, he probably would have gotten a proper one. In any event, if anyone doesn't want to receive so many emails a day, you can subscribe to the digest version of the list (although I doubt it would be much better, since you just replace a lot of smaller messages, with one huge message), or visit gmane.org, which is a bi-directional mail:news gateway for many mailing lists. It also allows you to request lists to be added, if they are not already provided, and provides an archive of old messages (only going back to when the list was originally added, of course). I personally use it for all the mailing lists that are more than a few (for some value of "few") messages per day. David> 10. Remember that english is not everyones main tongue. Writing David> skills are always weaker for a person from a NESB (non english David> speaking background). (The "E" in English is always capitalized, BTW.) -- Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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