Partition During Install ES 3.0

[Andrew Kelly]

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... doesn't anybody send text-only e-mail anymore?

Or bottom post?

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.. or do this?
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Andy, Steve,

forgive me for high-jacking your thread, and my apologies 
if it looks like I'm attacking; that's really not my
intention. It's just that this particular exchange is pretty
indicative of,
well,
I guess what I want to say is, "Everything that's wrong with 
Usenet", but that's neither accurate nor fair.

It's very difficult to follow a "conversation" when answers
are given before questions are asked. 

It's very (time-consuming, expensive, tedious, annoying)
unnecessary to read every word exchanged again (repeatedly)
to then see 2 or 3 words added.

It's very difficult to follow attributions and dialog 
exchange after a metric ton of HTML markup tags have had 
their abusive way with several divergent attempts at
formatting.

The (N)etiquette which has been adopted over years of
internet exchange is not simply "how your parents did 
things". It speeds and clarifies the exchange of information.

It's easier to read and understand text-only posts which
originate with less than 70 characters so there is room
to intersperse pertinent comment in a logical, conversational
flow.

I know that saying these things could generate some unhappy
dialog and that's very unfortunate, but sometimes it just bears
saying.

There are some very, very knowledgeable folk out there, who 
are happy to be of help. But they are generally members of 
more than one or two mailing lists or newsgroups, and they
are generally also looking for answers as well as giving them.
And you can bet that most of them are also trying to keep 
paying the rent, so the answers only come when the job
permits.
So, when you've got an hour a day and potentially a thousand or
more bits to read, ... 

The truth be told, it's rude not to follow what's recognized 
as standard posting procedure in mailing lists or newsgroups.
But it's also counterproductive. If you have a problem
and somebody who can solve it is never made aware of it because
of the form your query took, well, nobody wins there, do they?

Again, this isn't directed to Andy or Steve, and no offense
is meant to anybody. But is it really impossible to take part
in the 'net as the 'net would have you do it?

Andy (as well)