Re: [XFree86] Mailing list behaviour and etiquette, in general

2003-07-14 Thread Egbert Eich
Jay R. Ashworth writes: Actually, the address for Mr Bateman on the appropriate page seems to be dead, I was hoping that either my list posting might drag him out, or that Egbert might forward. David has other obligations that don't allow him to support the CT driver at the moment.

Re: [XFree86] Mailing list behaviour and etiquette, in general

2003-07-14 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 09:16:17PM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote: Jay R. Ashworth writes: Actually, the address for Mr Bateman on the appropriate page seems to be dead, I was hoping that either my list posting might drag him out, or that Egbert might forward. David has other obligations

Re: [XFree86] Mailing list behaviour and etiquette, in general

2003-07-11 Thread Egbert Eich
Jay R. Ashworth writes: On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 10:58:56PM -0400, gabe f wrote: So then, why do you subscribe to the list, you could just read the emails on the website, thereby saving all of that internet traffic, by only viewing the email body text that appealed to you by its

Re: [XFree86] Mailing list behaviour and etiquette, in general

2003-07-11 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:23:51PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: See? I'm not really a snot. Even though I did ask *about* the cleanest question on the list in the 2 weeks I've been here, and got not one answer from anyone... Unfortunately if Egbert and David Bateman don't have any hints for

Re: [XFree86] Mailing list behaviour and etiquette, in general

2003-07-11 Thread Randy Kramer
On Friday 11 July 2003 05:04 pm, Egbert Eich wrote: My main intention starting this thread was to point out that many of those seeking support may never receive an answer. Good point -- I'm sort of a lurker on this and some other xfree86 lists but I have responded to a few questions -- I made

Re: [XFree86] Mailing list behaviour and etiquette, in general

2003-07-11 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:26:57AM -0400, David Dawes wrote: See? I'm not really a snot. Even though I did ask *about* the cleanest question on the list in the 2 weeks I've been here, and got not one answer from anyone... Unfortunately if Egbert and David Bateman don't have any hints for

Re: [XFree86] Mailing list behaviour and etiquette, in general

2003-07-11 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:04:09PM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote: Cause I asked a question (which has drawn *no* replies, BTW -- mostly, probably, cause I'd already asked the point guy on the topic and he didn't know), and subscribing to follow the answers *is what you do*. I stayed on a)

Re: [XFree86] Mailing list behaviour and etiquette, in general

2003-07-11 Thread Peter \Firefly\ Lund
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Randy Kramer wrote: have responded to a few questions -- I made the (bad) assumption that responding to the list got the answer back to the questioner. No :( Saying that they should subscribe doesn't help, either. Most of them are not able to read/comply with

Re: [XFree86] Mailing list behaviour and etiquette, in general

2003-07-11 Thread Egbert Eich
Randy Kramer writes: Good point -- I'm sort of a lurker on this and some other xfree86 lists but I have responded to a few questions -- I made the (bad) assumption that responding to the list got the answer back to the questioner. My first tack on a problem like this would be to add

Re: [XFree86] Mailing list behaviour and etiquette, in general

2003-07-11 Thread James William Morris
somewhere around Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:38:22 -0400 J.R. Hartley wrote: Ok, I was wondering -- it's apparently a real pain to get 4.3 RPM's for 7.3 (which is the largest thing I can comfortably run on my laptop); Mike isn't building for that anymore, and no one else is either... and compiling all

Re: [XFree86] Mailing list behaviour and etiquette, in general

2003-07-11 Thread Randy Kramer
On Friday 11 July 2003 08:37 pm, Egbert Eich wrote: Well, we have learned that this behavior is intended, therefore it's the one who posts who will get an auto reply asking him to take care that he does receive an answer. Thanks for the reply. I guess I'm used to the belt and suspenders

[XFree86] Mailing list behaviour and etiquette, in general

2003-07-10 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 10:58:56PM -0400, gabe f wrote: So then, why do you subscribe to the list, you could just read the emails on the website, thereby saving all of that internet traffic, by only viewing the email body text that appealed to you by its subject, and you wouldn't have to

Re: [XFree86] Mailing list behaviour and etiquette, in general

2003-07-10 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:59:02PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: And between your attitude and David's, I must say, I can see why there was a fuss with Keith, and why people suggested that he fork the project. If y'all I've been making that suggestion too. Haven't seen anything come of it yet.