[OpenIndiana-discuss] Posting inline

Private openbabel openbabel at gmail.com
Sun Dec 13 11:06:33 UTC 2015


Dear All,

I am concerned that accessibility for the blind and visually impaired 
should be maintained at all times.

Robert Jones




On 13/12/2015 07:42, Nikola M wrote:
> On 12/13/15 05:44 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> On 12/12/15 07:03 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
>>> Both of these appear to be due to incorrectly configured mail 
>>> clients. The
>>> second may be a matter of (bad!) taste.  The first, being uncommon, 
>>> is more than
>>> likely a problem with the client.
>>
>> And as annoying as both may be, is it worse than making the list so 
>> hostile that
>> the very small community you have shrinks even further because no one 
>> wants to
>> participate at the risk of being flamed for their mail client? Surely 
>> there's
>> more important things to spend time on than typing in all those replies.
>
> Sorry people need to learn to use their mail clients.
> If community is to develop and grow in positive way and possibly have 
> an web representation of mailing list in the future, individuals that 
> are doig it wrong on the list and they are informed on it, should be 
> informed to do it right so that everyone is happy and list is not 
> trashed.
>
> It absolutely has nothing to do with "hostility" , on the oposite, it 
> is being friendly and positive and understanding recognizing the issue 
> and help people not to repeat same mistakes.
> If it would be hostile, people would be temporarely banned from 
> posting after being informed to correct posting mistake and not doing 
> something about it. If one recognize the problem and keeps doing th 
> same thing, it is then aganst community goals of having civile 
> environment and may and may not be intentional.
>
> Also well-behaved and civile community is much more important then 
> someone's personal opinion that laziness to fix it's own problem has 
> anything to do with OI. Also it is of most importance to inform 
> Newcomers that being polite and helpful is valued and ignoring 
> technical problems (especially when it has nothing to do with OI 
> mailinfg lists) is not.
> So using one's own mail client is not connected with Openindiana 
> whatsoever.
>
>
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