[ubuntu-za] Failed to update repository information - (Resending as no response 1st time round)

[Raoul Snyman]

On Mon, 30 May 2011 01:54:54 +0200, Robin Bownes wrote:
> I often find the solutions to Ubuntu issues by Googling. In this
> instance, I did not find a solution that I understood. I therefore came
> to this list looking for assistance that I, as an ex-Windows, and
> relatively inexperienced Ubuntu user could understand and use. I was not
> looking for sarcasm or to be spoken to as if I am an idiot. There are
> often impassioned discussions on this, and other Ubuntu lists, regarding
> how to attract people to Ubuntu. I'm afraid that the general tone, and
> lack of helpfulness of your reply are not what is needed in this regard,
> and certainly not what I was looking for. 

Text-based media, like e-mails, convey no tone or emotion. I was not being
sarcastic, nor trying to be unhelpful, I was simply telling you what I
perceive to be the two main categories of reasons for not replying to an
e-mail.

> I have looked through many of the links supplied by your Google search
> and am in the same position as I was after my own Google searches on
> this matter - still in need of assistance that does not assume that I am
> either an Ubuntu expert, or an idiot.

Funnily enough, when I went and looked at the results, most of the
suggested solutions were what the two other guys who replied to you
suggested.

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