Somebody should tell Patrick Rady to not turn off HTML formatting in his email client. That's not a good thing to send to mailing lists.
Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jordan Erickson wrote: > For whatever reason, Patrick can't send to the list due to "suspicious > headers". I'll forward his reply now. > > - Jordan/Lns > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: [Ltsp-discuss] A crisis of LTSP faith. > From: > "Patrick Rady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: > Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:52:20 -0400 > To: > "Jordan Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: > "Jordan Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I'm getting as irritated by this mailing list as I am by Hardy Heron. > My replies keep getting blocked due to "suspicious headers" and I > haven't included my sigs in those. > > I give up. > > - > Patrick Rady > Administrator, npServ > NEW (Nonprofit Enterprise at Work) > office 734-998-0160 ext. 212 / fax 734-998-0163 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.new.org/ > Ann Arbor Office: 1100 N. Main, Suite 100, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1059 > Detroit Office: Hannan House, 4750 Woodward Ave., Suite 308, Detroit, MI > 48201 > ================================== > Finally! A solution for your nonprofit's tech support headaches. Visit * > www.new.org/npserv/ <http://www.new.org/npserv/>* to learn more! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Jordan Erickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:48:14 -0400 > *Subject:* Re: [Ltsp-discuss] A crisis of LTSP faith. > > Patrick, > > Would you mind forwarding your reply to the list? It'd be nice for > others to hear this as well. > > Cheers, > Jordan > > > Patrick Rady wrote: > > Increasingly, I think the LTS-distinction is stupid, because if > Hardy > > is of any evidence, the LTS releases are not more stable. Not at > > all. Years of security patches aren't of much value if OpenOffice > > keeps crashing. > > > > - > > Patrick Rady > > Administrator, npServ > > NEW (Nonprofit Enterprise at Work) > > office 734-998-0160 ext. 212 / fax 734-998-0163 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / http://www.new.org/ > > Ann Arbor Office: 1100 N. Main, Suite 100, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1059 > > Detroit Office: Hannan House, 4750 Woodward Ave., Suite 308, > Detroit, > > MI 48201 > > ================================== > > Finally! A solution for your nonprofit's tech support headaches. > Visit > > * www.new.org/npserv/ <http://www.new.org/npserv/>* to learn more! > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:* Jordan Erickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > > *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > *Cc:* [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > *Sent:* Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:15:18 -0400 > > *Subject:* Re: [Ltsp-discuss] A crisis of LTSP faith. > > > > (Heh, coincidentally my Thunderbird randomly crashed while writing a > > reply to this) > > > > Patrick Rady wrote: > > > > *snip* > > > With Ubuntu, there is a certain pressure to upgrade- if you want > > your > > > users to have the latest versions of, say, OpenOffice. You need to > > > upgrade (in my case because of weird bugs with print drivers we > > need > > > to use) because they are so conservative with backports, but > > then you > > > must endure all of the regressions. Also, Feisty and Gutsy-packaged > > > OpenOffice suffered from nasty crashers that were specific to the > > > Ubuntu packages. So you must go through hoops to install the Sun > > > versions, which don't integrate quite as nicely. > > BAM. You hit the nail on the head, I think. Ubuntu's backporting > > policy, > > *especially* in regards to LTS versions, is absolutely horrible. > > What is > > the benefit of NOT backporting bug fixes? It's hard to stay > > motivated to > > make things work when new LTS versions such as Hardy come out, you > > find > > bugs that are really critical to your environment, and the first > > thing > > you hear is "It'll be fixed in Intrepid." Huh?? Same thing > > happened with > > the last LTS version. I was forced to upgrade to a non-LTS version > > when > > it came out, to fix bugs in things like Evince and OpenOffice. > > It's the > > same cycle all over again. > > > Actually, Intrepid pre-release has seemed less-crufty than > > Hardy. But > > > I'm almost afraid to try testing it. > > Same here, especially regarding my experience with doing this last > > time. > > > > What can we do to show the Ubuntu folk that we need stronger, more > > frequent backports for bugfixes? > > > > > > Cheers, > > Jordan/Lns > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. 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