Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction - new list user

2006-06-17 Thread Daniel Iliev
Well, I'm a newbie in this form (mailing lists) of sharing information. Actually its my second subscription. So there's a newbie question from me about some of the terms used in this thread. I'm not joking, I really don't know. Additionally I'd say English isn't my mother tongue, so I really

Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction - new list user

2006-06-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 17 June 2006 23:29, Daniel Iliev wrote: What is - top posting We read from top to bottom and generally it makes more sense to read a question before the reply. Therefore it seems logical that any reply should be placed right below whatever question it is replying to. Top posting

Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction - new list user

2006-06-17 Thread Daniel Iliev
Thank you very much for the detailed reply. ;-) Now I'm loading the links you recommended. -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction - new list user

2006-06-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/12/06, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is, what are the local rules around here for how to behave on list? I'm very much old school, and prefer lists over forums - in my world top posting, no snipping, HTML mail and hi-jacking threads are a huge no-no, pretty much strict

Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction - new list user

2006-06-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 June 2006 08:58, Alan McKinnon wrote: My question is, what are the local rules around here for how to behave on list? I'm very much old school, and prefer lists over forums - in my world top posting, no snipping, HTML mail and hi-jacking threads are a huge no-no, pretty much strict

Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction - new list user

2006-06-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 June 2006 10:50, Richard Fish wrote: You'll do just fine here! About the only other thing I've seen people get upset about is large messages/attachments. Some poor souls have to pay by the byte for bandwidthso be a bit careful if you ever need to post a log file or output

Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction - new list user

2006-06-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 June 2006 10:53, Uwe Thiem wrote: That pretty much covers it. alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za Hey, another gentoo user from Southern Africa. ;-) Uwe There's more of us than you mighty think, the secret underground gentoo conspiracy to take over and dominate the entire

Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction - new list user

2006-06-12 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:58:54AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: My question is, what are the local rules around here for how to behave on list? I'm very much old school, and prefer lists over forums - in my world top posting, no snipping, HTML mail and hi-jacking threads are a huge no-no,