On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 12:45 +0200, houghi wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:03:21PM +0200, jdd wrote: > > you should experiment suse-linux-e. it's not always a good > > experience. most people ask before having ever read the > > wiki, not to say they read the archives :-). OT are so > > frequent... > > The last time I looked there I saw so many topposting and HTML postings > that I ran away. As long as the people agree that this is allowed (either > by really allowing it, or by not doing anything about it) I won't go > there. >
I have been on suse-linux-e for quite some time (I joined sometime in 1999) and it is not as bad as you make it out to be. I see maybe 1 html email a week. There are more OT emails than I like and I try to discourage them but then I am not the list owner who is the one that should exert some control on the list. This use to be the case until a certain SuSE employee left the company. Perhaps that is all that is needed again, a list moderator. Not in the sense that that person manage every email that is posted but someone that can step in and put a halt to certain threads when they get out of hand, OT messages and messages that belong to another list. Top posting is a huge issue because there is no one in charge to put a stop to it. The users, such as myself, try to curtail its use but in the end we have no authority to stop it and the top posters know that we do not. I have found the suse-linux-e list to have a vast knowledgeable user base that has help thousands of users solve their problems. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998, opensuse since 2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
