On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Leonard den Ottolander <leonard at den.ottolander.nl> wrote: > Hello Rudi, > > On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 15:46 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> Instead of wasting time and bandwidth on this flame, why not just tell >> him what todo? > > Because I don't want to encourage such behaviour. Plus this wasn't even > a reply to the original poster, but seeing how many people cross post > these days I felt I had to point out this isn't being appreciated. > > Regards, > Leonard. > > -- Leonard, no offence, but sometimes people need to loosen up a bit. If the OP, or anyone for that matter cross-post then it's probably cause they don't always get the correct (or any helpful, or any at all) answers for the various topics on the same mailing list. Different people, with different experience / input / ideas / etc are on different lists. On one list he'll get something like "try google", on another list he'll get something like "for this problem, you need todo the following...........". And then every now and again someone with a bee up their bonnet about netiquete en HTML emails and this and that and a lot of useless info totally unrelated to the problem at hand. If you feel THAT strong about a cross-posted, who by the looks of it in your mind should by hung or banished from the internet, then tell him how you feel OFF-LIST, to his private email. Someone else might be looking for the exact answer, bow down to your holiness and not even post anything at all for fear of being beaten with a stick next time goes outside. Instead he does a google search, and find the answer, posted on one of the other lists where someone who's actually a bit friendly and helpful took the time to help the guy out. So what if it's a homework assignment. Or if it's someone who's new to Linux or PC's in general and actually don't know what you've learned in the past 86years. Is it really that much trouble to help him, instead of stoning him? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532