On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:27:56 -0400 Brian Pack <afcpack@verizon.net> wrote: > > Ok... so it looks like going through the web archive is working, but who > the hell knows if anybody is going to read it. > > So rather than helping to fix the problem, some have chosen to killfile > the topic. Stuff like this drives me nuts. This is a mailing list of users. debian-*user*. Not developers. Not listmasters. Users. You have a legitimate problem -- you're not getting list mail. Other people here have confirmed the problem by saying that they, too, are not getting mail; and they're on a variety of ISPs. So it sounds like it's a problem with the list. The listmasters administer the list. So it sounds like the listmasters are the people to try and sort this out. Maybe you've tried contacting the listmasters and they've been unresponsive or unhelpful. Fine. But what, exactly, do you expect me to do to "help fix the problem"? I'm a *user*. I'm not the listmaster. Occasionally, somebody posts about a problem here that I know something about, and can help with. Meanwhile, I ignore problem threads in which I can't contribute anything to help fix the problem. Since I don't administer the list, I don't have anything to contribute to solving your problem. So *of course* I ignore the posts. And when the posts keep on coming, *of course* I killfile the topic. And when people make it hard to do that, *of course* I get annoyed. > Mr. Metzler may not see this. Suits me fine. If anyone else cares to > tell him, let him know that he is personally responsible for driving > users away from Debian. Oh brother. >From now on, I'll be sure to stop ignoring threads that I can't say anything useful about, out of fear of driving people away. -c -- Chris Metzler cmetzler@speakeasy.snip-me.net (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
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