TOP POSTING

Wed Mar 30 14:56:30 UTC 2005

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 at comcast.net]
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!

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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 at uni-x.org>
Subject: Re: Var/spool/up2date
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Message-ID: <1111891197.11539.196.camel at serendipity.dogma.lan>
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

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