On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, houghi wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:26:30AM -0700, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Robert Schiele wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:20:16PM -0700, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
> > > > I have been waiting for this discussion on the list as I feel there is 
> > > > a 
> > > > real problem with mirrors.  Especially US mirrors.  I have started 
> > > > using 
> > > > the EU mirrors as they are the only real reliable mirrors.
> > > 
> > > Well, if you have a point to make then _make_ it.  You should not wait 
> > > until
> > > someone provides you with the answer to life, the universe, and 
> > > everything.
> > 
> > I find your attiude and tone offensive and demeaning.  Your action item 
> > item was to disuss/document the current situation and verify whether 
> > others are seeing the problem.  
> 
> I don't think it was offencsive. I think he is right. If you have an
> issue, please come forward. If everybody waits for others to come forward,
> then we are going nowhere.¹

If you look you will see that I did start discussing it.  I know it was a 
topic on the agenda.  I could not make the IRC meeting.  I had tried to 
find the IRC log to see what was discussed.  I then started a thread on 
the problem of Non EU mirrors.  Then I read the log and back-off waiting 
for the thread.

> Mmm. I must have missed that meeting, because the one that I attended
> clearly spoke about the problems on non-europe mirrors. Both in quality and
> quatity. 

That is what I was talking about.  US mirror are few and bad.  Using EU 
mirrors in the US is the only reliable way to address problems.  All I 
heard prior to the threads I started with the current one excluded was 
that Novell/SUSE had mirrors and there were no problems.  But the reality 
was that they had them, but they do not function/work well.
 
> ¹Sometimes on Usenet I see people complaining about something in SUSE.
> When I ask them to file a bugreport, then they say that SUSE must just
> repair it. When I ask them how SUSE know what to repair if they do not
> know what is broken is still waiting for an answer.
> 
> You can replace Usenet by forum/phonecall/pub visit/random contact.

Agreed.  That is why this thread is now happening.  I have been chidded a 
lot for over stepping bounds to address problems.  Even though I have been 
using SUSE Linux since the first release, and have had many battles.  It 
became apparent to me that I need to listen more and not be as out spoken 
as I had been in the past.  I guess the pendule has now swung to far in 
the opposite direction.  Finding a good balance is hard.

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