Re: LXDE Display Coordination
On Wed 11 Nov 2015 at 08:12:11 -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> 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
The less information provided, the easier it is to help someone?
> waded through all the logs just from this post? If so, congratulations!
> You are much more patient than myself.
Your lack of patience says nothing about the usefulness of the logs.
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