Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 13:01:11 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> To: Gary Corcoran <gcorcoran@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop dead, suggestions? Message-ID: <44695C97.9070804@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <44695C0B.6090506@rcn.com> References: <4468A0F9.6071.37FD6A10@dan.langille.org> <4468DF69.20702@ultra-secure.de> <20060515.141212.35690040.imp@bsdimp.com> <200605151710.39858.mistry.7@osu.edu> <44693597.1090007@pacific.net.sg> <446940C9.7040404@rcn.com> <446947BD.2060804@pacific.net.sg> <44695C0B.6090506@rcn.com>
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Hi Gary, Gary Corcoran wrote: > >> I noticed this when I have had a question for a list I was not on. I >> did not know about the alias story until then. > > I wasn't trying to accuse you, or whomever, of trying to be bad. But no, I did not understand this that way. I just tried to share my very own experience. > I'm just curious: did you (or somebody), purposely post to the "two" > lists, because you thought they were different? If so, that should > either be clarified on the FreeBSD web pages, or perhaps the ones without > "freebsd-" in the name should be eliminated? Or is the posting to both > list names somehow happening "automatically", and if so by what bad > software? > freebsd on an e-mail address ending with freebsd.org is like wooden wood to me. > I'm not suggesting not to use 'reply all'. I'm just asking people to take > an extra 5 seconds to look at the To: list and trim the duplicate > addresses, > if they notice them... :) > This is another problem. I have currently four fields in the address section. It is an extra effort to scroll the fields. The laziness wins here to often. Erichhome | help
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