I'll take the blame for the flame. I registered on the list in haste in order to add my experience to the discussion about the warning message that I was then reading on the archive web page, in threaded view. I my mind, my post would pick up that thread. I completely forgot about the nature of list so understand how my original post was senseless when it hit your mailbox. I apologize for that. Let's put this to rest please.
On 8 Mar 2018 at 10:08, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > What definitely isn't fine is this endless griping about how people > should phrase their questions differently, know more than they do, have > read this and that (blindly assuming that they hadn't) and so on which > contributes exactly nothing to a solution. > > What isn't fine either is rude language. > > Joel's reaction was the appropriate one: neither jumping to conclusions > nor berating the person seeking help, but cleary and politely asking for > the missing information. > > Sorry for contributing to the flamewar but I have observed this long > enough now to run out of patience. > > Am 08.03.2018 um 01:08 schrieb Reindl Harald: > > > > > > Am 07.03.2018 um 22:10 schrieb Joel Esler (jesler): > >> Which is perfectly fine. The mailing lists are the correct place for > >> people to ask for help. Should people read the archives? Yes. > >> Should people read FAQs? Yes. But largely, they won't. So we need > >> to help our community. > > > > nothing is perfectly fine - they should quote the damned message they > > are talking about in the initial post > > > > "understanding the issue with the warning being logged by freshclam" > > without mentioning said message is a joke > > > > http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise > > > >> On Mar 7, 2018, at 2:05 PM, Reindl Harald > >> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> if only the OP would have taken time to mention the exact message > >> unasked in his original post - i love people starting with "I just > >> subscribed to the list in the hopes of understanding the issue with > >> the warning being logged by freshclam" > _______________________________________________ > clamav-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
