On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:30:57PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 20 Sep 2016 at 22:40:23 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > > Brian wrote: > > > But you said he would read list mail as follows: > > > > He said he _receives_ list mail. He did not say that he reads it. > > > > > Now he is mass deleting it! > > > > Potentially. An assumption as base for an in-advance workaround offer. > > > > He mentioned multiple debian lists. > > Nobody can read them all. I'd simply tell my mail fetcher to drop them. > > But that's only one of the possibilities. > > > > > Talk about having it both ways! > > > > Information technology has to cope with this. Futile to complain. > > Indeed. The ball is in the OP's court. He is aware of responses to his > request. If he intent on getting help he has routes to follow. > > -- > Brian.
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