Re: posting to a blog vs. this list (was: Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?)
30.66 km here ^_^ On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: 2010/1/24 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de what is that ruckus all about? OK Arne, I live approximately 50.5 miles from my parents' house by road, slightly less as the crow flies. How about you? Maybe we should all discuss the distance we live from our parents' houses, if you're so sure this sort of information is of interest to the list. Perhaps I should tell the list about my sex life too, and which friends I speak to about which issues. Or alternatively perhaps we should encourage that sort of discussion to happen off-list, since it's off-topic. I'm not trying to silence Brolin, just asking him to consider his choice of forum more considerately. Doing so will likely be to his benefit in the long run, anyhow, since in an appropriate forum, his personal progress updates and requests for personal advice would be generally welcomed, not just tolerated. That's likely to lead to less tense interaction on both sides. Over and out, Sam ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: posting to a blog vs. this list (was: Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?)
Brolin, You're clearly well-meaning, but ... 2010/1/24 Brolin Empey bro...@brolin.be: Fabian Schölzel wrote: On Sunday 24. January 2010 13:38:27, Stefano Cavallari Cavallari wrote: Why does your reply template include the quoted author’s last name twice instead of only once? Also, you should include the time zone/UTC offset because the quoted time of day is still in the future in the Pacific time zone (-08:00). :) ... comments like these are OT in a thread that's already OT. Going that far OT is likely to annoy people on the list who are, for the most part, subscribers because they are far more interested in open source mobile technology than they are in the minutiae of your opinions about other people's email formatting. (Besides which, the full timestamp of any post to the list can be discovered via the list archive, if anyone is really fussed; so there's no need to police the issue.) What about opening a free blog and write your thoughts/happenings there? I think that's a good idea! I actually already have both a Facebook [1] and LiveJournal [2] account. I stopped posting to LiveJournal because I received almost no feedback except when I sent the URL of my posts to people via e-mail, IM, or IRC. I thought I could get more feedback by posting notes (not status updates because the length limit of those is too small) on Facebook, but I receive no feedback at all except when I send the URL of my posts to people. Lots of people seeking good sources of advice and support run into problems. Blogging's a reasonable start, but bloggers - both commercial and non-commercial bloggers - face the problem of fostering an active community of interest. OK, so you're one of those bloggers, like the rest of us. Big woo. Now get creative. Not by telling the OpenMoko mailing list how far you live from your parents' house, but by seeking more appropriate avenues. You want to get advice by asking people questions? Use an online answers service like Yahoo Answers or WikiAnswers, or use a more traditional offline alternative like a counsellor, a friend, or a relative. You want to make your blog more popular, so that you'll have a larger and more active audience? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+make+a+blog+popular Good luck, and please, please consider the relevance of your topic to the mailing list before you post. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum Sam ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: posting to a blog vs. this list (was: Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?)
what is that ruckus all about? once in a while brolin posts a message about his personal progress -- always with the same subject and hence easily to be filtered by the mail client for those unable to do it by themselves while reading the subject already. the most traffic and the real annoyance are messages complaining about the ot-ness of brolin's posts. there are but a few who complain, and probably also but a few who are interested -- the vast majority tolerates his mails. so, please all of you complaining: use your head or at least your computer and ignore his mails in future -- but spare us the griping. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: posting to a blog vs. this list (was: Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?)
2010/1/24 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de what is that ruckus all about? OK Arne, I live approximately 50.5 miles from my parents' house by road, slightly less as the crow flies. How about you? Maybe we should all discuss the distance we live from our parents' houses, if you're so sure this sort of information is of interest to the list. Perhaps I should tell the list about my sex life too, and which friends I speak to about which issues. Or alternatively perhaps we should encourage that sort of discussion to happen off-list, since it's off-topic. I'm not trying to silence Brolin, just asking him to consider his choice of forum more considerately. Doing so will likely be to his benefit in the long run, anyhow, since in an appropriate forum, his personal progress updates and requests for personal advice would be generally welcomed, not just tolerated. That's likely to lead to less tense interaction on both sides. Over and out, Sam ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: posting style preferences was Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)
maybe http://wave.google.com/ will solve the problem? http://mobiphil.com On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:25 AM, fredrik normann fredrik.normann.j...@gmail.com wrote: so true 2009/6/26 Fabian Schölzel fabian.schoel...@googlemail.com Long long ago, someone wrote : And sometimes, you just dont have to quote, because the discussion hierarchy isnt lost within mailing lists. True. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- being mobile, but including technology http://mobiphil.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: posting style preferences was Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)
FINALLY :) Thumbs up! arne anka ha scritto: any chance you fight that out somewhere else? the discussions about the prefered posting style (and no, there's no rule!) is as old as the internet -- and both positions still live and kick. that can only mean one thing: for both prefs good reasons exist and no party could ever convince the other one. if you, please, would stop to argue on that mostly religuous level and look to what you (hopefully) want to achieve? do not top post! is as stupid as do not bottom post!, and assumptions what users do, are always subjective -- if i receive a mail with bottom posting, i don not read the entire mail, but scroll to the part not cited (usually marked by different color or missing symbol at line position 0). simply always cut down the mail to tzhe neccissities, do not stupidly type either bottom or top. the realy annoyance is not top or bottom posting, the real annoyance are those stupid mails where simply everything everybody once saidf is included -- and even those fighting for nettiquette do that very often! a good rule _would_ be to imagine, that recipients _are_ reading the mails on their fr -- it easily reminds you to not live for dogms but for common sense. btw: those lengthy mails are annoying not only on the fr but even on my netbook with about 600px screen height! and that is use rather often to check mails. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community FINALLY :) Thumbs up! (To not hurt anyone :P ) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: posting style preferences was Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)
LOL On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 12:32 +0200, DJDAS wrote: FINALLY :) Thumbs up! BWL snip FINALLY :) Thumbs up! (To not hurt anyone :P ) ROTFL David ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: posting style preferences was Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)
Long long ago, someone wrote : And sometimes, you just dont have to quote, because the discussion hierarchy isnt lost within mailing lists. True. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: posting style preferences was Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)
so true 2009/6/26 Fabian Schölzel fabian.schoel...@googlemail.com Long long ago, someone wrote : And sometimes, you just dont have to quote, because the discussion hierarchy isnt lost within mailing lists. True. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
RE: posting
If you ask on the list as you have, someone SHOULD ( HINT HINT) come to your assistance. If they don't, then make noise in my direction and I will get you help. Just make your subject line STEVE I NEED HELP. I generally see those sorts of messages. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven ** Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:52 AM To: List for Openmoko community discussion; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: posting I would recommend using the support list to get support with your difficulties. I believe that's what it was created for. ;-) https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support Once you've signed up, you can post messages by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Steven On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:59 AM, ashley elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i would like to know how to post on this message board, i have recently aquired a neo 1973 and im having extreme difficluties! and i'd like to be able to ask for advice from fellow openmoko clients. many thanks ashley ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: posting
You just did post to the board. On Jul 24, 2008, at 8:59 AM, ashley elphick wrote: hi, i would like to know how to post on this message board, i have recently aquired a neo 1973 and im having extreme difficluties! and i'd like to be able to ask for advice from fellow openmoko clients. many thanks ashley ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: posting
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:59:28 -0800 ashley elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i would like to know how to post on this message board, i have recently aquired a neo 1973 and im having extreme difficluties! and i'd like to be able to ask for advice from fellow openmoko clients. many thanks ashley You are posting - you will get most replies if you don't use html messages. solar.george signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: posting
Welcome. It looks like you've succeeded in posting, so I guess we don't need to answer that one. As to the Neo 1973 problems, ask away! One small point - it would be nice if you could post plain text as well as, or instead of, html. On Thursday 24 July 2008, ashley elphick wrote: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN HTML HEADMETA http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=utf-8META content=INBOX.COM name=GENERATOR/HEAD BODY hi, i would like to know how to post on this message board, i have recently aquired a neo 1973 and im having extreme difficluties! and i'd like to be able to ask for advice from fellow openmoko clients.brmany thanksbrbrashleybr /BODY /HTML ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: posting
I would recommend using the support list to get support with your difficulties. I believe that's what it was created for. ;-) https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support Once you've signed up, you can post messages by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Steven On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:59 AM, ashley elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i would like to know how to post on this message board, i have recently aquired a neo 1973 and im having extreme difficluties! and i'd like to be able to ask for advice from fellow openmoko clients. many thanks ashley ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
