Re: LXDE Display Coordination
On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:38:53 -0500
Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Lisi Reisz composed on 2015-11-11 12:36 (UTC):
>
>>> Pasting logs and configs into email puts it wasting space in the mailing
>>> list archive forever.
>
>>> Pastebinning is temporary, a week or month or whatever the particular paste
>>> host is configured for.
>
>> Yes, so the archives are incomplete. For shorter things it is surely better
>> that they should be in the email and therefore available to those who search
>> the archives. /boot/grub/grub.cfg certainly counts as short in this context
>> and I think it should therefore be in the email and searchable.
>
>Ray's Xorg.0.log post was 38kb. His grub.cfg post was 26kb. I consider both
>much too long to wade through in email archive searches. Help posts of under
>10kb are nearly always more than sufficient.
>
>Of course what any subscriber thinks doesn't really matter. Whatever a list's
>rules permit is technically OK, even to including binary attachments, which I
>usually delete unread, often even when sent from people in my address book.
I have to agree with Felix here. The more logs to wade through, the
less likely it will help someone else down the road. Have any of us
waded through all the logs just from this post? If so, congratulations!
You are much more patient than myself.
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