<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Monday 23 February 2009 17:08:11 Thomas Wolf wrote: > Then I come to this mailing list to ask a question about my Ubuntu 8.10 > X server dying (yes, I'm somewhat of a newbie with respect to Linux) > and, instead of getting answers, I get slammed for top-posting and, for > good measure, for posting in HTML. Very nice (actually, there was one > nice guy that emailed me privately to let me know that in this mailing > list, some of the experts were very finicky and that I might not get an > answer if I top-posted....but by the time I received the e-mail, the cat > was already out of the bag). > > I don't need this. I'll let younger people ask their questions on this > mailing list and take their lumps. I'll just google for potential > answers. If I don't find them, I'll just file a bug. > > So long and thanks for all the fish. > > tom Uhmm, I sort of feel responsible for all this, if I'd just kept my big mouth shut.... Guys, can we drop this? I really should have taken a minute longer to think about it before I fired off that first email. -- Odzangba</body></html>