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Date:      Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:28:43 +0000
From:      David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
Subject:   Re: Unable to build Port:   php5-mysqli-5.3.4
Message-ID:  <201012262228.43721.david@vizion2000.net>
In-Reply-To: <20101225232021.GD7582@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
References:  <20101223050909.6a3ecdc5@seibercom.net> <201012241032.13575.david@vizion2000.net> <20101225232021.GD7582@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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> On 2010-Dec-24 10:32:13 +0000, David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> wrote:
> >> Dave, you have got to start trimming messages when replying.
> >
> >Not a good idea...
> 
> Repeating 370 lines of mail to just ask add 2 lines asking for more
> input is wasting everyone's time (to skip over it if nothing else) as
> well as archive space.  It would be _really_ appreciated if you
> learned how to trim.
It would really be a goog idea if you learned to think that there may be 
alternative points of view to your own. It might also occur to you that those 
alternatives might have a vailidity that you do not appreciate.

A ;less hectoring style has IMHO some value.

david

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