Ajit Singh wants to chat

[Robert Holtzman]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 09:25:20PM +0100, ms wrote:
> On 03/08/10 20:24, Alex wrote:
> > *sigh*
> > A large portion of my Spam folder is stuff from this mailing list... I get
> > lots of spam from ubuntu-devel. At least Debian's mailing lists don't send
> > me spam...
> 
> That's probably due to the abysmal tech skills of many who are 
> subscribed to the ml.
> In the Gentoo mailing list, I've never seen something like that (well, 
> not so frequently). :)
> 
> Which is to be expected, given that Ubuntu caters to the masses 
> (fortunately!) but it has mildy annoying drawbacks.
> 
> (I feel it is much worse the stubborn inability of many newbies to 
> Google the most obvious things before coming here...)

I've long  been an advocate of a not so gentle instruction to, at least,
run a search *before* any answer is given.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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"If you think you're getting free lunch,
 check the price of the beer"
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