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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:
> 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.

I apologize if anyone has been offended, annoyed, or confused by any
of my posts to this list. If something I post does not make any sense,
or is too off-topic, please let me know and I will try to correct the
problem.

> (1) In my three year's of experience in this list,

I don't think I've been around BL as long as you have. I started
sometime around March 2003, with BL2.02 (my first Linux distribution,
because everything else was too large to download or too hard to use
from DOS). I first posted to this list in June or July of that year.

> 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'

I try to avoid top posting, but I don't really care if you top post
when you reply to the list. Others may find it annoying. I don't think
that this list has had very many top-posters in three years.

I am trying to appropriately cut posts that I reply to, but sometimes
it is difficult to decide what to keep and what to cut.

> and acronyms.

The list has been using that SW71 abbreviation even longer than I've
used Linux. I apologize if my usage of that abbreviation confused
anyone. I will try to avoid using it in the future.

> (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 try to make my complaints constructive, i.e. I will show that BL
lacks some capability and then provide directions to add it by
installing some package.

David