Re: Sad...
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On 03/10/07 23:45, CaT wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 09:56:51PM +0100, Ben Humpert wrote:
>>> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:44:46 +0200> From: andreimpopescu@gmail.com> > Ben Humpert <ben_humpert@msn.com> wrote:> > > > > I'd love to use the Etch installer...if I could ever get it.> > I> > > > used the etch installer last night and it worked flawlessly. Why> > > > can't you > get it?> > > kinda hard to find :) the webmaster of debian.org should add three> > tiny links: a) get stable (sarge) here, b) get testing (etch) here,> > c) get unstable (sid) here. each link directs to the first page of> > "get debian" for each version ... very simple but perhaps to> > difficult for them...dunno> > Testing and unstable shouldn't be easy to find because they are not> meant for everyone to use. If you are advanced enough to use them you> will find them ;)
>> Well, then the debian guys should fix this decades old sarge installer - OR - merge it with the etch installer; it just takes some hours to do this. sata is already established enough to support it. its a shame to direct users to testing only to get sata support and to tell that it should be "hidden" from beginners.
>>> Regards,> Andrei> P.S. Does msn have a config option to not remove line breaks? (In> Outlook it's called: "Remove extra line breaks in text messages"). It> makes your replies very difficult to read.
>> Its not MSN/Outlook which kills the whole layout, its your client which cant interpret the mailings correctly. if i check my outbox the mail looks like it should (with line-breaks) and you guys are the first with this problem, i guess its debilian ... errr debian, sorry :)
>
> Let me show you what your message looks like on a plain text client
> (for example). Your paragraphs are single lines, but that's not much of
> a problem in the end. What is more of a problem is that your mail client
> does not understand what '> ' means and when you reply to a message it
> grabs the whole quoted paragraph and attempts to re-flow it. This, well,
> leads to the stuff above (for eg: Why> > > > can't you > get it?> > >
> kinda hard to find).
He (or the webmail he uses) probably uses JavaMail. That's the only
time I've ever seen this happen.
>
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