frank... don't let a few people get you down... post away!! post sideways if you want, post upside down... frankly (pun intended) all i reall care about was did the poster get it right!!! did i get the relevant information i was searching for.. and if i come across the email later via a search, i like to be able to see the whole problem/resolution. but this is my thing!! peace... ps. yo' jesus, you can't top post, us romans don't like it!!! -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Frank Stratton - VE3YY Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 6:57 AM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: TOP POSTING Hi All, I've decided to withdraw from this list, but before I do I want to have my 2 cents worth. I received a nasty message from a David CURRY (see below). This message was inappropriate and uncalled for. I am new to this list and if he had taken to time to explain what was required I would have changed from digest format to individual messages. Instead this imbecile, ranted on about what a TURD I was. I don't believe this man would have said this if he was standing in front of me. I wonder how he thinks lowering the esteem of someone to his level accomplishes anything useful. Can you imagine having an employee of your company sending out emails with the kind of statements Mr. David Curry has made? I'd have his ass out the door so fast he wouldn't have to worry about being hit from behind by it. Since Mr. David Curry seems to think I have offended Alexander Dalloz, and I wonder if that is the case. If so, I have no qualms about apologizing to Alexander and will do so gladly since he was very helpful to me. In cutting a pasting the parts of the digest format I wanted to acknowledge my thanks. If this breaks some net etiquette, then I apologize to all users of this list for my obvious lack of understanding. I thought that this list was about passing on solutions to problems; maybe I was wrong. I think I understand why Alexander wants to have individual messages and post to the threads. A simple note when I signed up on this list would have solved that problem. I would have changed to individual message format and made his life easier. Now back to Mr. David Curry. Mr. David Curry, I've been in the computer business since 1963. Since that time I've worked on just about every piece of hardware and software going. I've been around UNIX based systems since 1976 and in that time I've met many fine and upstanding people. They were courteous, kind, and helpful. None of which describes you in any way. I cannot imagine what kind of brain you have between your ears to write such an email to someone you do not know except by the contents of a single email. If I were your father, I would grab you and wash your mouth out with soap. Thank you all for reading this far. I am sincerely yours, Frank Stratton -----Original Message----- From: David Curry [mailto:dsccable@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: March 30, 2005 12:09 AM To: Frank Stratton - VE3YY Subject: Re: /var/spool/up2date Alexander Dalloz has made it quite clear on fedora-list that he urges people to avoid top posting and to interleave their replys to prior messages with the replys following only appropriate context material from the prior message. You return his kindness of granting you the benefit of his fedora expertise by TOP POSTING your "thanks". That act tells me that you are either incredibly inept socially or a world class TURD who intended to publicly insult if not humiliate Alexander! YOU OWE HIM AN APOLOGY! ------------------------------------ fstratton wrote: Thanks Alexander, I also moved the directory over to an alternate disk and put in a symbolic link. I found 3587 files in the up2date directory but it only has a few RPM files. Seems like a lot of information to keep around. I upgraded this system from Fedora Core 2 to Core 3 and applied the updates. I can't say that I'm very happy with the upgrade path. I lost the automount of CDROMs and some packages have some mysterious problems. I think I will back up my data the next time and "upgrade" by simply loading a new version and replacing the OS. Cheers, Frank Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 04:39:57 +0200 From: Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Var/spool/up2date To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <1111891197.11539.196.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Am So, den 27.03.2005 schrieb Frank Stratton - VE3YY um 3:52: >> My /var/spool/up2date has grown to the point where it has over 300 MB of >> files in it. Can I delete the files in this directory? >> Frank Keep the .hdr files. I suggest you reconfigure up2date to not keep the RPMs after installation, if disk space is an issue for you. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
