Im sorry

[Ralf Mardorf]

Welcome Tim :)

On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 16:11:25 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
>This article is controversial but still instructive:
>
>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

this link might be semi-inappropriate for this user mailing list. I
guess learning by doing is the better approach for this list. Tim needs
only to understand, that he is welcome and that we usually have good
reasons, if we ask somebody to provide more information or want
somebody to care about posting style. There are Wiki articles available
about posting style, but lets stay with the Ubuntu recommendations.

The page to subscribe to this list [1] contains a link to FAQ. Those FAQ
Link to

  http://community.ubuntu.com/contribute/support/mailinglists/

Excerpts from the "Technical guidelines" of the above link:

"[snip] Write your email underneath the email which you are replying to
 [snip] remove any unnecessary text
 [snip] Avoid sending emails in HTML format
 [snip] When replying to messages, use [snip] Reply To List function
 [snip] When starting a new subject, do not reply to a previous email
 [snip] Replying to digest emails breaks the threading [2]
 [snip]"

Regards,
Ralf

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users

[2] A note from me, it's avoidable by using MIME Digest
    http://www.list.org/mailman-member/node28.html