On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 12:30:33PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:33:49AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote: > [...] > > the first hit in Google to find out. I would not bother trying to help > > him like you guys are doing, but ignore him instead. Sad but true. > > everyone first helps and is shocked by the attitude of people like you > have nowadays :) > then after a few years on a mailinglist of a somewhat bigger and popular > project everyone ends with the same attitude of "just ignore these mails" > or even more evil things > > iam wondering if theres anyone who isnt following that trend, it doesnt > seem so if even you have now finally succumbed to the dark side ...
It is sad to be disillusioned, but it may well be a fact of life. Nowadays I mostly dismiss mails with Outlook (Express) in the X-Mailer field or from known-broken webmail addresses right away. The signal to noise ratio is just too low in my experience. I also have the impression that mailing list etiquette is in decline among newcomers. This may well be our fault for not stating the rules clearly in a prominent place, but still ... Diego _______________________________________________ FFmpeg-soc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-soc
