From: djberg96@... (Daniel Berger) Date: 2002-04-19T22:28:58+09:00 Subject: Re: Help wanted for statvfs extension Paul Duncan wrote in message news:<20020418201401.A21636@ns>... > * Daniel Berger (djberg96@attbi.com) wrote: > > > > Posting attachments in newsgroups is generally considered poor form. > > > > Please post your attachment in plain text, along with a note explaining what > > this is supposed to be. > > Posting condescending 76-character wide emails to a mailing list instead > of a private message is generally considered poor form, especially when > the problem is really your broken software. Please resend a polite and > email-friendy version of this message along with a note explaining what > this is supposed to be. > > You can find my message in the web-based mailing list archives. Sorry, > they don't offer the archives in an NNTP-friendly format. > > > Dan I hereby apologize to you and this group. I'd much rather get a working version of 'df' out the door than start a flame war. :) I'm getting very different behavior between different news readers and even through a browser via deja.com. Looking at your message via deja, I don't even see an attachment. In other cases (some of Mr. Nokada's messages) entire pieces of the message don't even show up via deja, but show up fine in my news reader at home. I can only guess this has something to do with the way mailing list messages are being posted here (but that's strictly a guess). As for posting a message instead of sending an email, 50% of people prefer it and the other 50% consider it extremely rude. I've been yelled at for both. It's a no-win situation IMO. As for the 76 characters, I've always considered the 72-character-width rule a bizarre "standard" that was set up by unix nerds for unix nerds. I generally try to adhere to it, but not because I think there's anything sacred about it. It's purely for historical reasons IIRC. Most modern readers can wrap text just fine. Kids with leukemia and world hunger upsets me. Poorly formed text breaks don't upset me. As someone once said, "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from". ;) Well, anyway Paul, didn't mean to get you going. Now, let's get back to work, shall we?