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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I would greatly appreciate if both new and old members could refrain from 
nasty complaints about (1) the style of other people's postings, or (2) 
things that do not work as expected in BL.

(1) In my three year's of experience in this list, nobody has 
intentionally posted information, or requests for information, in a style 
intended to annoy.  If you find someone's postings annoying, please 
explain politely why they annoy you and how the poster can change their 
style to better express their thoughts.  This refers specifically to 
comments about 'top posting' and acronyms. Polite requests will accomplish 
a lot more than grouchy complaints, and incline other list members to 
spend more time trying to help you with your problems.

(2)  Steven has spent an enormous amount of time putting together BL, much 
or most of it being additions requested by list members, of little or no 
use to himself.  Unlike the rest of us, he is not perfect and does not 
write perfect documentation, or even perfect software.  He has spent an 
enormous amount of time trying to make BL work on strange hardware 
(half-height serial cards, for instance) and will continue to be helpful 
if asked politely for help, as will the rest of us.  Complaining that 
things just do not work will only aggravate people who would be happy to 
fix your problem if you ask them politely.

I have tried various big distributions of BL and half of them will not 
even install.  Or they don't work on my older hardware (RH would not read 
720K floppy disks, and Ubuntu would not find ISA cards, and DSL insists on 
32MB RAM).  I am astonished how well BL does work on all sorts of 
hardware.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org